Upper elementary age and middle grade students will enjoy this story of 6th grader, Sunny, who has moved with her mother and sister to live with her grandmother. Sunny wants to move back home to where her father lives and she plots and plans ways to get her parents back together. When she learns that her parents have been lying to her all along, Sunny decides that she needs to make sure she gets home to her dad. Along the way she learns lessons about friendship, family, and life.

I enjoyed this book because I myself have a niece named Sunny (Not Sunflower) but her life has been so similar to this book it was scary! I can't wait for her to get older so that I can let her read it.

Sunny, short for Sunflower, is 100% against the move she, her mom and sister make from New Jersey to North Carolina. Her mom says it's so she can go to school but Sunny knows there's more to it. She discovers things about herself, both internally and externally that she may not be ready to handle.
Sunny has a hard time making friends in her new school, even making a few poor choices along the way. The characters are likeable enough but everyone has the same voice.
I would recommend this to new middle schoolers who want to read about characters in middle school who are trying to figure it all out.

Sunny, like she chooses to be called, is a selfish teenager that acts without remorse, she hurts the ones who love her the most just to get her own way, but this time she went too far and it becomes quite clear to her that all the lies she manufactured created a vacuum of hate and distrust. While she wanted others to change, she soon realized it must first come from within her, that lying changes nothing and only turns you into a dishonest human being who no one wants to hang around with. So all the lies she told and hurt she did to her mum, grandmother and her friends, she still was not prepared for the fallout from such selfish actions. It brought to light some misconceptions and half truths. The fundamentals of this story is plain and simple, lying is bad it creates chaos and confusion,so yes Sunny had some hard lessons to learned.

This book was only okay. The plot got bored after a while, the characters got a little boring after the first few chapters, but I did enjoy this.