Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. Sunny’s introduction, via a new friend, to comic-book heroes like Swamp Thing and Batman creates some slightly heavy-handed but effective parallels for Sunny’s conflicted feelings about a family she cares for deeply. HolmNo preview available- 2015 About the author (2015) Jennifer L. Colored by Lark Pien in creamy aquas, corals, and yellows, the illustrations shout “Florida coast,” and, along with the short chapters, give the story the feel of a serialized Sunday comic. Sunny is ten years old and has been looking forward to her family summer vacation to the beach. Through skillfully deployed flashbacks, the Holms reveal that these concerns, while not trivial, mask a larger one-Sunny’s older brother’s increasingly out-of-control use of alcohol and drugs. Sunny Side Up, by brother and sister author team Jennifer and Matthew Holm, was funny but not lighthearted, which is surprising for middle grade fiction. With no kids in sight, a squeaky hide-a-bed to sleep on, and a haircut that falls short of the Dorothy Hamill wedge she’d hoped for, Sunny is disappointed at the direction her summer has taken. Holm Name Pronunciation with Matthew Holm Grade 4-8 Genre Graphic Novel Year Published 2015. Video Book Trailer for Sunny Side Up Name Pronunciation with Jennifer L. Sunny’s planned vacation with a best friend has turned into a solo trip to visit her grandfather at a Florida retirement village. Sunny is spending a few weeks during the summer of 1976 with her. In a compassionate story that opens in the summer of 1976, the brother-sister team behind the Babymouse and Squish series introduces 10-year-old Sunny Lewin, who is facing unwanted change on multiple fronts.
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