Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create accountThe perfect last-minute gift
Audiobook credit bundles can be delivered instantly, given worldwide, and support local bookstores!
Start giftingLimited-time offer
Get two free audiobooks!
Nowâs a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, weâll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.
Sign up todaySunny
This audiobook uses AI narration.
Weâre taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.
Learn moreCurrent Kids Club audiobook!
The Kids Club features childrenâs audiobooks on sale each month. Itâs free to join and thereâs no monthly commitment.
Learn moreSunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds.
Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track teamâa team that could take them to the state championships. They all have a lot to lose, but they all have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Sunny is the main character in this novel, the third of four books in Jason Reynoldâs electrifying middle grade series.
Sunny is just thatâsunny. Always ready with a goofy smile and something nice to say, Sunny is the chillest dude on the Defenders team. But his life hasnât always been sun beamy-bright. You see, Sunny is a murderer. Or at least he thinks of himself that way. His mother died giving birth to him, and based on how Sunnyâs dad treats himâignoring him, making Sunny call him Darryl, never âDadââitâs no wonder Sunny thinks heâs to blame. It seems the only thing Sunny can do right in his dadâs eyes is win first place ribbons running the mile, just like his mom did. But Sunny doesnât like running, never has. So he stops. Right in the middle of a race.
With his relationship with his dad now worse than ever, the last thing Sunny wants to do is leave the other newbiesâhis only friendsâbehind. But you canât be on a track team and not run. So Coach asks Sunny what he wants to do. Sunnyâs answer? Dance. Yes, dance. But you also canât be on a track team and dance. Then, in a stroke of genius only Jason Reynolds can conceive, Sunny discovers a track event that encompasses the hard beats of hip-hop, the precision of ballet, and the showmanship of dance as a whole: the discus throw. But as he practices for this new event, can he let go of everything thatâs been eating him up inside?
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020â2022 National Ambassador for Young Peopleâs Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; Stamped; As Brave as You; For Every One; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy, in the Meantime; Ainât Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
Featured in these playlists...
Audiobook details
Author:
Jason Reynolds
Narrator:
Guy Lockard
ISBN:
9781508246145
Length:
3 hours 7 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:
April 10, 2018
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#7,020 Overall
Genre rank:
#1,695 in Children's