Sunny: Diary Three

by Ann M. Martin and Susan Mallery

Since the beginning of the series, readers have known that Sunny's mother is sick. In this deeply heartfelt story, Mrs. Winslow's struggle against cancer reaches its final chapter, and Sunny is left... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059002390X
• ISBN13: 9780590023900
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8

Customer Reviews

The best!!

Sunny is a teenager who is going through a tradgety. She is loosing her mom to canser. Sunny used to cope with this by skipping school, not studying, and even running away. Iused to think that sunny was a selfish character, because she didnt even visit her mother in the hospital. In this book, she stopped running from her problems. She handled her mothers death with a lot of maturity. I think Sunny is very brave. Even though she is a character from a book, i respect her.

the best book ann has EVER written.well done,ann.

im a great fan of ann martin. SUNNY DIARY#3 was EXTRAORDINARY. it is SOOOOOOOO touching. i think it is the best in the seires. SUNNY is a WONDERFUL. SHE IS A VERY rich charachter. she is ,in her third diary,facing her problems at last. she is so hurt and the reader feels it,it is so HARD to say goodbye or farwell to a person especially if it is your mom. ann has succeeded in going deep through her.the readers tears is a great evidence. im 16 and i see the book is suitable for all ages. anns aim isnt describing sunny s suffering only but i think she wants to tell us how LUCKYwe are. we should VALUE our parents more and stop complaing about our lives. all over the world many people are suffering even more than sunny .the diaries give us HOPE. .even sunny HAS a bright side to look at. She still has her friends . so she will be healed soon. in fact ANN shows sunny that her mom ISNT DEAD. she WILL be always be with her.in her mind. in her heart ,in Sunny herself.i think ann deserves the nobel prize,doesent she?so ahead and read CD#12.

The best in the series... wondeful yet heart wrenching...

This book was wondeful, and [at least in my opinion] it was probably the best in the series. its incredibly sad and heart wrenching, the torment sunny went through trying to deal with her mothers condition, and her death... I could almost feel her pain. And seeing how strong sunny was.. and how she overcame some of it... the emotion she showed, turning to her friends in her time of need. The fact that her friends didn't desert her, (as some might, cuz they could have felt weird or uneasy) made her a stronger person as well. So anyway, i give this book 5 stars... its excellent, you should definetley buy it. And if you don't believe me? read the dozens of other reviews here...? Lol, but its your decision, of course. :) but if you buy it, you'll like it, i promise :)

Hits Home (for me, at least)

This book is a masterpiece. It hit so close to home for me. I have a plauge of cancer in my family, and I lost my father to cancer. It made me think hard about family values. I've cried maybe once in the past 5 years, but when I read this book, I couldn't stop. I still have tear stains on the pages of the book. If you don't already own this book, go buy it now. You won't regret it. promise.

Excellent book for teens without a parent

Have you ever lost someone you have loved? Sunny's diary shows her emotional side even though she was one to rebel. Her mom was dealing with cancer and Sunny had to go through every moment of it until the end. This book made me cry! I am not one of those people to cry at fiction but Ann M. Martin made it so realistic for me. It was like I traveled inside Sunny's mind, through her thoughts. This was one of the best books I have ever read. I would recommend it to teens around the world.