When her Gramps phones her from Florida to ask how she is doing, she always tells him that she is doing fine. Summer has ended and the time has come for Sunny Lewin to enter the unfriendly and odd hallways that make up middle school.

“Swing it, Sunny” is the second novel in the “Sunny” series and was released in the year 2017. Sunny is a relatable character, and the book shows addiction to be something that should not be hidden and encourages younger readers to get help if they know somebody that suffers from it. It is sure to delight readers that enjoy coming-of-age stories about the dangers of having too many secrets. Readers found this to be an incredibly cute story with more serious undertones to it, as it alternates between bittersweet and amusing. The question still remains though, why is Sunny down in Florida to begin with? The answer lies in the family secret that is not going to be a secret for too much longer.

Facing off against mysteriously vanishing neighbors, golf ball eating alligators, and runaway cats. Sunny is not the only kid around, however, since she meets a boy that is fully obsessed with comic books, named Buzz, and pretty quick they are having adventures of their own. However the place that her Gramps lives ain’t no amusement park. At first she thought that Florida might be a fun place, as it is the home of Disney World, after all. Sunny Lewin is being sent off to Florida to stay with her grandpa for the entire summer. When is summer vacation not actually a summer vacation? “Sunny Side Up” is the first novel in the “Sunny” series and was released in the year 2015. They are set in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania, when Sunny Lewin (age ten) is not down in Florida visiting her grandpa for the summer. The books are middle grade, semi-autobiographical graphic novels. The series is set during the seventies, and features certain things from the period: Polaroid SX-70 ‘instant’ camera, TAB cola, and Dorothy Hamill’s ‘wedge’ hairstyle. It follows the lives of kids whose older brother’s delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, and “Sunny Side Up” is a compelling “problem” tale and is a love letter to the comic books which helped the protagonist make sense of her world. The books are a funny, sweet, and simple introduction to the impact that emotions can have on the people around you. Holm and Matthew Holm use speech balloons, panel frames, and thought bubbles to teach kids how to read a story. This is a comic board book series about feelings. The series began publication in the year 2015, when “Sunny Side Up” was released. Holm writes the “Sunny” series of graphic novels which are illustrated by Matthew Holm.

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