KEEP YOUR SUNNY SIDE UP!

Sunny is sent off to stay with her grandfather for a month in a retirement community in Florida with visions of Disney World dancing in her head but instead they do "fun" stuff like go to the post office and early bird specials - all you can eat dinner at 4 p.m. with the "girls".  

Her summer seems like a bust because her parents have to deal with an incident with her older brother drinking and using drugs until she meets another kid at the retirement home who introduces her to finding golf balls and superhero comic books.  

Sunny Side Up is a touching story set in 1976 that's semi-autobiographical by Jennifer Holm and her brother Matthew regarding substance abuse and keeping secrets.  For readers 5th-8th and fans of Jennifer Holm's other books with similar tones such as Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf and Turtle in Paradise.  

MOXIE TAKES AFTER HER GRANDFATHER AND HAS SOME MOXIE

The last thing Moxie wanted to do this summer was to be stalked and stressed out by the creepy Redhead.  You see her grandfather, who has Alzheimer, use to hide things for criminals.  He has good days, where he remembers who she is, and bad days, when he thinks she is her mother, Anne.  

So when the creepy Redhead wants the stuff her grandfather had hidden for Sully Cupcakes all those years ago, she has to figure out where he hid them or else her entire family is in danger.  Along with her best friend, Ollie, Moxie races against time and her Grumps' spotty memory in order to find the missing Gardner art pieces, hidden all over Boston when he worked as a carpenter.

Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking by Erin Dionne is a fast paced mystery adventure perfect for readers and mystery lovers in grades 6-8.