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Sunny by Jason Reynolds
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Sunny

Track: Book #3

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Narrator Guy Lockard
Length 3 hours 7 minutes
Language English
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Sunny 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 teamā€”a 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 Reynoldā€™s electrifying middle grade series.

Sunny is just thatā€”sunny. Always ready with a goofy smile and something nice to say, Sunny is the chillest dude on the Defenders team. But his life hasnā€™t 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 Sunnyā€™s dad treats himā€”ignoring him, making Sunny call him Darryl, never ā€œDadā€ā€”itā€™s no wonder Sunny thinks heā€™s to blame. It seems the only thing Sunny can do right in his dadā€™s eyes is win first place ribbons running the mile, just like his mom did. But Sunny doesnā€™t 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 newbiesā€”his only friendsā€”behind. But you canā€™t be on a track team and not run. So Coach asks Sunny what he wants to do. Sunnyā€™s answer? Dance. Yes, dance. But you also canā€™t 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 thatā€™s been eating him up inside?

Jason Reynolds is a #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, aĀ UKĀ Carnegie Medal winner,Ā a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner andĀ two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honorsĀ and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He wasĀ also the 2020ā€“2022 National Ambassador for Young Peopleā€™s Literature. His many books includeĀ All American BoysĀ (cowritten with Brendan Kiely);Ā When I Was the Greatest;Ā The Boy in the Black Suit;Ā Stamped;Ā As Brave as You;Ā For Every One; theĀ TrackĀ series (Ghost,Ā Patina,Ā Sunny, andĀ Lu);Ā Look Both Ways;Ā Stuntboy, in the Meantime;Ā Ainā€™t Burned All the BrightĀ (recipient of the Caldecott Honor)Ā andĀ My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.Ā (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); andĀ Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book,Ā 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.

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