Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal, Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina tells the story of sixth grader Merci Suárez who is finding out how different sixth grade can be. Her and her brother are scholarship students to a private school in Florida - they don't have everything the other kids have and have to do extra community service to make up for their tuition... Medina masterly mixes humor and wisdom into this story. Korean edition translated by Lee Won Gyeong.