"For Merci Suâarez, eighth grade means a new haircut, night football games and an overnight trip out of town. It also means more chores at home and that you will have to keep an eye on Lolo if her health worsens. It is a year full of more responsibilities and independence, but also more opportunities to reinvent yourself. Merci has always accepted the fact that she is not one of the most popular girls, like Avery Sanders, who will probably be named captain of the soccer team and is always traveling to fun places and buying new clothes. But then Avery starts talking to Merci more often, and not just as a teammate. Does this mean that they are friends? Merci wants to get smart, but with Edna always meddling in her affairs, Merci will have to decide which of the two she owes loyalty to. Whether it's the school dramas she confronts or the changes in her family dynamic, readers will empathize with Merci as she discovers who she can count on-and what can change in an instant-in this emotional conclusion to Meg Medina's trilogy"--

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