# Merci Suárez Changes Gears

**Author:** Meg Medina
**Lexile:** 700L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 368
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780763690496`
**ISBN-10:** `076369049X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/merci-suarez-changes-gears
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Sixth-grader Merci, a scholarship student at a private Florida school, juggles a jealous classmate, the demands of her tight-knit Cuban-American family, and the frightening changes in her beloved grandfather. Meg Medina's Newbery Medal winner about family, class, and growing up is widely assigned in grades 4-7.

## Themes

- family
- social class
- identity
- aging

## Content notes

- dementia

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