Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Five out of five stars.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. “Sunny” is a grade-A hit that will have readers cheering long after the last page. Each diary entry made me want to read more and really get into all the characters’ lives. The relationships between all the characters, especially Darryl and Sunny, are perfectly planned out. I knew he had to get this one right and he did. Reynolds does a fabulous job showing us those feelings we rarely talk about. His dad lost his love much earlier than my dad did. Having lost my mother at age twenty-eight, I know a little of what it’s like to lose a parent. It’s an invitation into his heart and the hearts of those he loves. Sunny stole my heart with this book-this diary.
Will he find a way to stay on the team while still doing the thing he loves best? Darryl would flip if he knew Sunny loved the track team but wanted to quit the mile. Sunny knows he could be perfect too…if only she hadn’t died the day he was born…if only he actually liked running the mile as much as he loves dancing. Sunny details in his diary (NOT a journal) that his mom ran track-ran the mile, just like him. However, no one is more upset about Sunny’s meet, it seems, than his father Darryl. The book opens just after the last meet in “Patina” and Sunny is disappointed in his performance. A self-described “weirdo,” Sunny writes in his diary every day about the things he see around him, how he feels and the people he interacts with. “Sunny,” is dedicated “To the weird ones.” It couldn’t be a more appropriate dedication for a book about a boy who doesn’t seem to really fit in with the rest of the crowd. Though the book works well as a standalone, I feel Reynolds was correct in putting Sunny’s story third, as it is much different from the two before it. If you would not like any spoilers from the first two books, I suggest you stop reading here, as I need to reference both books in order to talk about Sunny. “Sunny” picks up where “Patina” left off-after Saturday’s track meet. She is an interesting character, as are all the children in the Track series. I realize I never wrote a book review for the second Track series book, “Patina.” However, safe to say it is a great followup to “Ghost.” Being Reynolds’ first book told from a girl’s point of view, Patina is satisfying and keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time.
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