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Ggramps Aalways Keep Your Sunny Side Up
“Keep your sunny side up,” Ggramps says on page 215 of the book Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. There are In this essay you will learn about three differentdiffrent times when Ssunny copes with her life. With Ddale, her brother, getting addicted to drugs and how she is sentgets send to her grandpa’s house over the summer. The theme of the book is just like what Ggramps says, “Aalways keep your sunny side up” even when life isn’t what you thought it would turn out to be.

The first way this theme is shown on page 87 when Sunny’s teacher on the first day of school asked sunny is she was related Dale. Dale was Sunny’s big brother but when she told her teacher that she was not happy. Her teacher taught dale when she
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