Merci Suarez Can't Dance

Merci Suarez Can't Dance
Meg Medina
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NZ$ 18.99
Paperback
h197 x 140mm - 384pg
13 Sep 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781536228151
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In Meg Medina' s follow-up to her Newbery Medal-winning novel, Merci takes on seventh grade, with all its travails of friendship, family, love-and finding your rhythm. Seventh grade is going to be a real trial for Merci Suarez. For science she' s got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis, who expects her to be a smart as her brother, Roli. She' s been assigned to co-manage the tiny school store with Wilson Bellevue, a boy she barely knows, but whom she might actually like. And she' s tangling again with classmate Edna Santos, who is bossier and more obnoxious than ever now that she is in charge of the annual Heart Ball. One thing is for sure, though: Merci Suarez can' t dance-not at the Heart Ball or anywhere else. Dancing makes her almost as queasy as love does, especially now that Tia Ines, her merengue-teaching aunt, has a new man in her life. Unfortunately, Merci can' t seem to avoid love or dance for very long. She used to talk about everything with her grandfather, Lolo, but with his Alzheimer' s getting worse each day, whom can she trust to help her make sense of all the new things happening in her life? The Suarez family is back in a touching, funny story about growing up and discovering love' s many forms, including how we learn to love and believe in ourselves.
Merci returns for another year of challenges and triumphs at home and at Seaward Pines Academy. . . Merci' s maturity and growth are as engaging and compelling as they were in the author' s Newbery Medal winner, Merci Suarez Changes Gears (2018). The cast is broadly diverse; Merci and her family are Cuban American, Edna is Dominican, and Creole and Cajun Wilson has a physical disability. An uplifting sequel told with heart and humor. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In this sequel to the Newbery-winning Merci Suarez Changes Gears (2018), 12-year-old Merci takes on growing responsibilities both within her family and as a seventh-grader. . . Filled with the familiar, laugh-out-loud humor from the first title, this sequel will quickly pull readers, both returning and new, into Merci' s world. . . Fans of Merci will root for her as they are immersed in her vibrant world full of unique characters and heartfelt surprises. --Booklist (starred review) Newbery Medalist Medina artfully chronicles another year of highs and lows in the life of Cuban American middle schooler Merci Suarez via this winning sequel to Merci Suarez Changes Gears. . . Medina continues to build on the stellar character work of the first book, balancing laugh-out-loud one-liners ("Buy a Heart Ball ticket if you have absolutely nothing better to do in this sad life") with vulnerability. . . This is a sequel of the finest quality, perfectly capturing the feelings of awkward first crushes ("Did he say I look nice? Or did he say I look like a rodent? I can' t decide") and evolving friendships. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Now in seventh grade, Merci Suarez finds that a new school year means new responsibilities and challenges. . . The struggles with friendships, responsibility, school, crushes, and jealousy that Merci and her friends face will strike a chord with many readers. . . The plot moves along at a consistent and page-turning pace, and as usual Medina' s characters are excellently written and developed. Medina also touches on racism and how shared cultural heritage can bring people together unexpectedly. . . Fans of Merci Suarez Changes Gears will love watching how Merci and those around her grow. This sequel doesn' t disappoint and is an essential purchase for all collections. --School Library Journal This is a heartwarming book about a beautiful family and a young girl trying to make sense of middle grade. --Book Riot
Meg Medina is the 2019 Newbery Medalist for Merci Suarez Changes Gears. About this sequel, she says, "I' m so excited to bring my readers into the world of the Suarez family and Seaward Pines once again. . . . New friends, new teachers, and new self-doubts. It' s been a thrill to write about all the zany things that the seventh grade can throw at a person. " The recipient of the Pura Belpre Author Award for her young adult novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina is also the author of the novels Burn Baby Burn and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind and the picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me and Tia Isa Wants a Car, for which she received an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Meg Medina lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.

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