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So she creates "Sunny Beringer's Totally Awesome Plan for Romance"âa list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including:
Send Mom flowers from a "Secret Admirer" to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away.
Make a playlist of his favorite love songsâthe mushier the betterâand make sure it's always playing in the car.
Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love.
But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photoâone that changes everything.
Sunny's family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she'll have to reconcile her family's past and present, or she'll lose everything about their future.
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Release date
May 16, 2017 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781510711815
- File size: 788 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781510711815
- File size: 786 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.8
- LexileÂŽ Measure: 720
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Reviews
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May 1, 2017
Gr 4-6-When Sunflower's mom moves the family to North Carolina, Sunny leaves behind the only father figure she has ever known-not to mention her cat, school, and friends. Sunny and her mother have moved in with Sunny's rich grandmother, whom the girl barely knows, because her mom is pursuing a graduate degree. It doesn't take long for Sunny to put her super-stupendous plan to get her mom and dad back together again into action, without regard to the consequences or the feelings she hurts. After a series of disastrous choices, Sunny realizes that she can't misbehave her way back to New Jersey and that it's up to her to figure out a way to forgive her mother and make amends with her grandmother. Ultimately, she learns that a dad is always a dad, no matter how far away. Although even preteens may shake their heads at the way Sunny refuses to accept a new reality (and cringe at her plots to get her way), they'll appreciate how she gradually discovers that she needs to deal with things the way they are and that even if circumstances change, she can still count on the people around her to come through for her. VERDICT Purchase where tween fiction featuring family drama is in demand.-Elizabeth Friend, Wester Middle School, TX
Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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January 1, 2018
The perfect snapshot sixth grader Sunny has formed in her mind of her family--Mom, Dad, sister Autumn, and herself--fades when her mother leaves the man Sunny considers her father and Sunny discovers the truth about her unconventional family. Sunny is a likable protagonist, and this story of change, resilience, and reconstructing family relationships strikes a realistic chord.(Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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