![]() Holm's sweetly brilliant graphic novel Sunny Side Up (and of course also Matthew Holm, Jennifer's brother who acts as main illustrator), although Swing it, Sunny is not quite as personally relatable and thus as approachable (and readable) as the first book, Swing it, Sunny has nevertheless been an entertaining, nostalgic and at times even thought-provoking reading (and viewing) experience for and to me (and this especially with regard to both time and place, with Jennifer L. I can only imagine what Sunny will think once the original Star Wars movie premieres by the arrival of her next summer break!Īlthough the sequel to Jennifer L. Also, the continued 70's references (artifacts?) - a Pet Rock, a bright orange AMC Gremlin coupe, the Six Million Dollar Man TV series - were a plus, and there was also a 'blink and you'll miss it' cameo appearance by Scooby-Doo's colorful Mystery Machine van during a scene set on a highway. Refreshingly, this loose and episodic story (in fact, it's more like a series of several vignettes) does not center around her being a student - that only consists of a few pages at most - but instead mostly centers on Sunny trying to understand her troubled older brother's issues and their impact on the family dynamic. She's back home in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania (woot-woot!) after her month-long vacation of sorts in Florida, and is now starting middle school in the autumn of 1976. ![]() ![]() Modest sequel to Sunny Side Up, this follow-up - which was again amusing and bittersweet, exactly like its predecessor - continues the day-to-day life of ten year-old Sunny Lewin. When things get bad, sometimes they take it out on the people who they should be turning to for help." - Sunny's mom, page 193 because she is NOT going let all this confusion get her down."Being a teenager can be hard. 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. Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time. 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. ![]() But the question remains - why is Sunny down in Florida in the first place? The answer lies in a family secret that won’t be secret to Sunny much longer. She meets Buzz, a boy who is completely obsessed with comic books, and soon they’re having adventures of their own: facing off against golfball-eating alligators, runaway cats, and mysteriously disappearing neighbors. Luckily, Sunny isn’t the only kid around. But the place where Gramps lives is no amusement park. At first she thought Florida might be fun - it is the home of Disney World, after all. Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. Box set of the successful graphic novels Sunny Side Up and Swing It, Sunny.
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