

Before her summer of hanging out with Buzz rescuing lost cats and finding golf balls comes to an end, Sunny confronts her grandfather about his secret smoking and, with the help of her grandpa, learns that she does not have to keep everything about her brother’s drug addiction inside and it is not her fault that he is struggling with this. Buzz introduces Sunny to superhero comics. Pained by not only the lack of activities but her recurrent thoughts about her older brother, who struggles with drug addiction, Sunny meets Buzz, the son of a Cuban chemist-turned-groundskeeper at the golf course. Sunny spends one summer with her grandpa at a senior living community in Florida.

Holm and Matthew Holm and illustrated by Lark Pien (think American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints) offers a wonderfully realistic picture into the life of a young girl who can only keep her brother’s drug addiction and how she feels about it a secret for so long. Sunny Side Up (2015, Scholastic) by Jennifer L. As a new Florida resident, I was particularly excited to pick up this new younger readers/ middle grades graphic novel. SQUISH is now an animated tv series on HBO MAX!įor more information, visit her website at. Jennifer collaborates with her brother, Matthew Holm, on two graphic novel series - the Eisner Award-winning Babymouse series which has more than 3.4 million books in print (!) and the bestselling Squish series. She is the recipient of three Newbery Honors for her novels OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA, PENNY FROM HEAVEN, and TURTLE IN PARADISE and a Scott O'Dell Award for her novel FULL OF BEANS. Holm is the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling children's author of THE LION OF MARS and THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH. SQUISH is now an animated tv series on HBO MAX! For more information, visit her website at Jennifer L.

