Meg Medina is the winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal for Merci Suárez Changes Gears (read The Horn Book Magazine‘s starred review here). For our February issue of The Horn Book Herald: ALA Youth Media Awards Edition e-newsletter, Medina answered Five Questions posed by Horn Book reviewer, children’s librarian, REFORMA member, and ALSC board member […]
Meg Medina Talks with Roger
September 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by With Merci Suárez Changes Gears, Pura Belpré medalist Meg Medina introduces us to sixth grader Merci, who’s trying to find her place in a new school. Haven’t we all? Roger […]
Review of Merci Suárez Changes Gears
September 1, 2018 by 1 Comment
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 361 pp. g 9/18 978-0-7636-9049-6 $16.99 Working-class Cuban American girl Mercedes “Merci” Suárez’s life in South Florida consists of spending time with her extended family and attending elite Seaward Pines Academy, where the sixth grader does community service to pay for her tuition. Now […]
Review of Burn Baby Burn
March 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina High School Candlewick 308 pp. 3/16 978-0-7636-7467-0 $17.99 g This vividly evoked coming-of-age story is set against actual events in 1977 New York City, when tensions rose throughout a city enduring an oppressive heat wave, culminating in the historic blackout of July 13th. Seventeen-year-old Nora López faces an insecure […]
The Writer’s Page: On Writing the American Familia
December 21, 2015 by 2 Comments
I’ve always been fascinated by how people become part of the American tapestry. Some had ancestors who were enslaved. Others fled persecution, poverty, or violence. Their stories are often a potent mix of hope and tragedy. My parents came to the United States during the mass political exodus of the Cuban upper and middle class […]
