# Ways to Make Sunshine

**Author:** Renée Watson
**Grade range:** Grades 3–7
**First published:** 2020
**Page count:** 193
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9781526613738`
**ISBN-10:** `1526613735`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ways-to-make-sunshine
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

From New York Times-bestselling and multi-award-winning author Renée Watson comes the start of a character-driven, young middle grade series starring a black girl and her relatable and lovable family 'Without ever shying away from difficult topics such as racism and financial hardship, this is a positive, optimistic story. For readers who are going through tough or troubling times, this book will be a welcome dose of happiness' BookTrust Great Books Guide 2021 Ryan Hart and her family live in Portland, Oregon, and her dad lost his job a while ago. He finally got a new one, but it pays less, and he'll have to work nights. And so they're selling the second car and moving to an (old) new house. The Harts are an everyfamily – a family with siblings who bicker, parents who don't always get it r

## Where this book is assigned

### Golden Kite Award

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- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)

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