![]() Instead, she's going to remain Sunny-side up! sortTitle Swing It Sunny Sunny Series Book 02 lexileScore 480 crossRefId 3439566 series Sunny subtitle Sunny Series, Book 2 publisher Scholastic Inc. because she is NOT going let all this confusion get her down. Swing It, Sunny, Jennifer, Matthew, Holm, family, friendship, Halloween, flags, twirling, secrets, addiction, graphic, novel, When lifes got you down. Luckily Sunny's got her best friend and a mysterious new neighbor on her side. But when Dale comes back, she STILL misses him. Sunny misses her brother Dale, who's been sent to boarding school. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of. PublishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescriptionįrom the award winning duo of Jennifer and Matthew Holm comes the sequel to the bestselling Sunny Side Up - full of just as much heart and just as many laughs. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages Sign in or Register () close Sign in or Register Paperback Hardcover Audio CD Library Binding Board book Toys Misc. (The publisher provided an advance digital review copy. Swing It, Sunny (Sunny, Book 2) (2) by Jennifer L. ![]() I think it’ll work best for those familiar with the first book, but I’m sure they’ll enjoy seeing more of how Sunny copes with a difficult situation while still having faith in her family. Otherwise, the art is deceptively simple, approachable, and easy to read with straightforward storytelling and plenty of clear markers of emotional reactions. Plus, that way we get a caption of a drawing of a Pet Rock that says, “The 1970s are crazy!”) (I wondered why it was necessary to explain all of these to the reader, then I realized the target audience was likely born 30 years or so after many of these shows went off the air. Escapist fantasy and light entertainment helps Sunny cope. Holm (they’re siblings) anchors events around a lot of popular culture, with callouts to General Hospital (which the girls make fun of for all the kissing), Swamp Thing comics, The Six Million Dollar Man, Donny & Marie, Gilligan’s Island, and The Brady Bunch. Here, 10-year-old Sunny Lewin returns home from her summer in Florida and learns that her family still has problems it needs to deal with. Not the happiest time of her life, for things at school and at home are very confusing. But, summer is over and she is heading into middle school. Holm and Matthew Holm, the sister-and-brother team behind the Babymouse and Squish graphic novel series for younger readers. If Sunny were sunny all the time, then her namesake would be appropriate. It reintroduces the characters as though they’re on a sitcom, since TV comparisons are a recurring theme. Parents need to know that Swing It, Sunny continues the story begun in Sunny Side Up, a funny and affecting middle-grade graphic novel by Jennifer L. Here’s an example, from the first chapter. ![]() There’s a cute baby brother, too, whose goofy actions lighten the mood.Īrtist Matthew Holm has an odd tick of often surrounding characters, mostly Sunny, with little parenthetical lines that to my eyes makes it look like she’s shaking or vibrating. Summer has ended and the time has come for Sunny Lewin to enter the unfriendly and odd hallways that make up middle school. They add up to an uncomplicated flow for younger readers, a book that’s able to be picked up and put down easily, with punchlines at the end of most chapters. Swing it, Sunny is the second novel in the Sunny series and was released in the year 2017. This volume, due to the way it’s structured around various incidents with friends and family, is more episodic, with short chapters that jump us through Sunny’s suburban 70s life. ![]() She’s no longer as much a part of his life as she’d like to be, although a new friend across the street helps by giving her an athletic outlet. He’s been sent to a military boarding school, which he resents, so even when he visits, it’s not like it was. This one deals with the followup - Sunny is back home, trying to go about everyday life while Dale’s absence continually warps the family structure. That book had Sunny visiting her grandfather in Florida and learning about the problems her older brother Dale struggles with. Swing It, Sunny is the sequel to Sunny Side Up, a powerful children’s graphic novel about coping with family changes.
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