Merci Suárez Changes Gears is a middle-grade novel about Merci, a Cuban American sixth grader at a private school in Florida. With humor and warmth, it portrays jealousy and belonging at school alongside family life as her grandfather begins to change.

Growing up means facing changes not only at school but within the family.

The Night Diary is a middle-grade novel set during the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan, told through twelve-year-old Nisha’s diary letters to her late mother. In a world split by religion and borders, she and her family search for safety.

Writing in a diary becomes a way for a quiet girl to survive.

Set in medieval Europe, this historical fantasy follows Boy, a servant on a manor, as he travels with the pilgrim Secundus in search of sacred relics. Through danger and revelation, a child who has felt monstrous begins to discover his origins and his own worth.

A quest for relics becomes a pilgrimage toward self-acceptance.