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Meg Medina Books in Order

Meg Medina has written 13 books, published between 2008 and 2025. The first book is Milagros: Girl from Away (2008) and the newest is Graciela in the Abyss (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2008–2025
Pages on record
1,620 in 6 of 13 books
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Photo of Meg Medina, author of the Merci Suárez series

Meg Medina is an American children's author of Cuban descent. Medina served as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2023 and 2024. The catalogue holds 13 books dated between 2008 and 2025, from Milagros: Girl from Away (2008) to Graciela in the Abyss (2025), and the Merci Suarez series stands under the Medina name. Merci Suarez Changes Gears took the John Newbery Medal in 2019; Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass took a Pura Belpre Award in 2014, and Mango, Abuela, and Me was named a Pura Belpre Honor Book in 2016. Recorded subjects include Cuban Americans, families, identity, magic, mothers and daughters, and personal finance.

How many Meg Medina books are there?

Meg Medina has 13 books, released between 2008 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Merci Suárez series.

Meg Medina Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Meg Medina books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Tia Isa Wants a Car by Meg Medina (2011)
  2. Cover of The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind by Meg Medina (2012)
  3. Cover of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (2013)
  4. Cover of Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina (2015)
  5. Cover of Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (2016)
  6. Cover of Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina, book 1 of the Merci Suárez series (2018)
  7. Cover of Evelyn del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina (2020)
  8. Cover of Merci Suárez Can't Dance by Meg Medina, book 2 of the Merci Suárez series (2021)
  9. Cover of Merci Suárez Plays It Cool by Meg Medina, book 3 of the Merci Suárez series (2022)
  10. Cover of Pura Belpré, book 30 of the She Persisted series (2023)
  1. 1
    Milagros: Girl from Away2008 · 279 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008279
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  2. 2
    Tia Isa Wants a Car2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  3. 3
    The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  4. 4
    Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass2013 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013260
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  5. 5
    Mango, Abuela, and Me2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  6. 6
    Burn Baby Burn2016 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016310
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  7. 7
    Merci Suárez Changes GearsMerci Suárez #12018 · 355 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018355
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  8. 8
    Evelyn del Rey Is Moving Away2020 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202032
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  9. 9
    Merci Suárez Can't DanceMerci Suárez #22021 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021384
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  10. 10
    Sonia SotomayorShe Persisted #92021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  11. 11
    Merci Suárez Plays It CoolMerci Suárez #32022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  12. 12
    Pura BelpréShe Persisted #302023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  13. 13
    Graciela in the Abyss2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Meg Medina books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Merci Suárez in order

3 books
  1. 1. Merci Suárez Changes Gears
  2. 2. Merci Suárez Can't Dance
  3. 3. Merci Suárez Plays It Cool

She Persisted in order

2 books
  1. 9. Sonia Sotomayor
  2. 30. Pura Belpré

Standalone books

8 books

8 Meg Medina titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Meg Medina books in order?

You only need to read Meg Medina books in order within the Merci Suárez series, which holds 3 of the 13 Meg Medina books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Meg Medina

Start with Milagros: Girl from Away (2008), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Meg Medina book?

Graciela in the Abyss (2025) is the newest Meg Medina book released so far.

Is there a new Meg Medina book coming?

No next Meg Medina book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Meg Medina has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Meg Medina. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Meg Medina at a glance

Still publishing
Meg Medina published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Meg Medina books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,620 pages across the 6 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 294 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Meg Medina books, 6 of 13, were published in the 2020s.

What the Meg Medina books are about

9 of the 13 Meg Medina books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 6 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.