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Rockin' Reads: Sunny

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By DeeDee

Sunny 
(Track #3)
by Jason Reynolds
Antheneum, 2018. Fiction, 159 p.
Sunny is fast. He always wins the mile race. Every. Single. Time. His big secret is that he doesn't like to run. His whole life his father has been pressuring him to run because his mother, who died in childbirth, was a champion runner. What Sunny really likes to do is dance.  Is there any way that he can stay on the team he loves without to racing?

This is the third in the Track series by Jason Reynolds. It is written in diary form, and has a unique main character. This is a rockin' read to listen to on CD because the reader does an amazing job recreating the fairly random speech patterns of the endearing Sunny. The reader adds rap beats and a variety of vocalizations with abandon. The relationship between Sunny and his still-grieving father creates the emotional center of the book, and like the rest in the series, it has a sweet message about family and friendship.
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