![]() Lolo and Abuela were one of the first waves of Cubans who immigrated to south Florida and now they are the heads of a family that includes two children and four. ![]() The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. Her protagonist Merci Suarez is how Suarez saw herself at the center of one these families, surrounded by grandparents and cousins from both sides of the families. So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues in the letter. Merci Suarez Changes Gears touches on some major topics for middle school girls - the end of childhood, growing up, taking more responsibility, seeing grandparents age, the pain of older siblings leaving home, learning to love and care for smaller children in the family, and just the joys and stress of living with extended family. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. ![]() It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. ![]() The Westing Game meets The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 in a stirring mystery of past and present, as two kids search for a place in their families, city, and country. ![]()
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