A determined girl spends the summer before middle school learning to stand up for her low-income community in this funny, fast-paced read just right for fans of Kelly Yangâs Front Desk.
Sunny Parker loves the Del Mar Garden Apartments, the affordable housing complex where she lives. And she especially loves her neighbors. From her best friend, Haley Michaels, to Mrs. Garcia and her two kidsâdevelopmentally disabled son AJ and bitter but big-hearted daughter Izzyâevery resident has a story and a special place in Sunnyâs heart.
Sunny never thought living at the Del Mar Garden Apartments made her differentâuntil the city proposes turning an old, abandoned school into a new affordable housing complex and the backlash of her affluent neighborhood teaches Sunny the hard way that not everyone appreciates the community she calls home. Her dad, the Del Marâs manager-slash-handyman, wants Sunny to lay low. But as hurtful rhetoric spreads and the cityâs public hearing approaches, Sunny realizes that sometimes thereâs too much at stake to stay silent.
With her friends behind her, Sunny Parker is determined to change the narrativeâbecause she and her community are here to stay!