# Sunny Side Up

**Author:** Jennifer L. Holm
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 220
**Genre:** Graphic Novel
**ISBN-13:** `9780545741668`
**ISBN-10:** `0545741661`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/sunny-side-up
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world" --

## Themes

- family secrets
- grandparent and child
- dysfunctional families
- secrets

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2016-2017 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2016-2017 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2016-2017 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2016-2017 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

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