Review: Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 out of 5 stars - If you ask me about this book, I'll tell you to read it.

Merci Suarez is a great book about changes that all children go through as they grow up. It covers bullying, growing up, friendship, and family. It also talks about the interesting family dynamics when multiple generations and branches of a family live together and grow up and grow old together.

Merci and her older brother are scholarship students at a local private school, which allows her the opportunity to interact with other students who have more than she does. So the book discusses embarrassment and growing to accept and love your family and your place in the world. It also talks about popularity vs friendship and that they're definitely not the same thing. Someone can be popular without actually having a lot of friends, and someone can have great friends without having the label of "popular". This is something that I wish I had known growing up!

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