Sunny Holiday

by Coleen Paratore

Book Description

In the gloomy days after winter break, Sunny, a fourth-grader who lives with her mother in a depressing inner-city apartment complex, decides that January needs some “jiggle.” She suggests to her best friend and neighbor, Jazzy, that each month should have a kid-friendly holiday. Sunny’s irrepressible spirit is tested when her mother, who cleans hotel rooms and takes evening classes, can’t make it to her class for morning share time. Sunny also misses her father, who is in prison. When she hurries her mother to finish a book they are writing together in hopes of getting rich quickly, her mother cautions that “there is no shortcut to the big dreams in life.” Told in Sunny’s optimistic voice, the story successfully depicts the way she and her mother appreciate what life has to offer in spite of its hardships.

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