Call Me Sunflower by Miriam Spitzer Franklin

Call Me Sunflower

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Miriam Spitzer Franklin

Sky Pony · Ebook · May 16, 2017

Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower.

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Who it’s for
A displaced girl’s romantic schemes open onto a more complicated family story.
Genres
Adoption Stories, Stories About Divorce
Published
Sky Pony, May 16, 2017

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About this book

Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong.

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So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance”—a list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including: Send Mom flowers from a “Secret Admirer” to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away. Make a playlist of his favorite love songs—the mushier the better—and make sure it’s always playing in the car. Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love. But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photo—one that changes everything. Sunny’s family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she’ll have to reconcile her family’s past and present, or she’ll lose everything about their future.

Love, With Complications

A displaced girl’s romantic schemes open onto a more complicated family story.

Come here for

  • A child’s earnest, funny campaign to mend her parents’ romance
  • Family upheaval, old memories, and a secret that changes the picture

Expect

  • A warm mix of humor, hurt, and family questions
  • A shift from trying to restore the past to facing what comes next

Where it sits

Adoption Stories88%
Stories About Divorce71%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Alternative Family Stories
  • Girls & Young Women
  • Love & First Crushes
  • Big Feelings
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  • Friendship
Authors
Miriam Spitzer Franklin
Publisher
Sky Pony
Published
May 16, 2017
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Alternative Family Stories