Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
From Okra Pick to Newbery Winner!
Meg Medina has won the Newbery for her novel Merci Suarez Changes Gears.
The book, a story about an 11-year-old girl who navigates her home life with a Cuban-American extended family and her experiences as a scholarship student at a private school, was a SIBA Okra Pick for the summer, 2018.