Books with title Its a Sunflower!

As a sunflower, you'll start rising with the warmth of the sun at 8am, squinting your eyes because life's so bright at 2pm, darkness will start to creep among the trees at 7pm and you'll feel like you've been defeated at 3am. As a sunflower, you'll be lucky enough to capture it all in your journals, whether it was through words or drawings. And that's exactly what this is.Here lay the things I’ve lived and written about. Things I’ve shouted from the rooftops as an act of pure joy and ecstasy and things I had to rescue from dustbins and tape back together because they once hurt too much I couldn’t handle seeing laying on my desk. Here lay 2 years of constant change and growing up. What lays in these pages is as yours as it is mine. This is the safe space where our souls meet. Feel free to rip off their pages if it hurts or makes you mad. Read it from beginning to end or read each chapter depending on what you need. This is a compilation of train journeys, sunsets, sea waves and midnight breakdowns.Here lays my soul.

Sunflower, a Native American girl of ten summers survives the loss of family and the destruction of her village by bandits in 1810. She and her injured grandmother are rescued by soldiers and taken to Fort Joseph where they are plunged into the white culture, an environment often strange, frequently confusing and sometimes hostile. This multi-faceted novel for young adults shows friendships, injustices and bravery. Diane DesRochers transports us to a placed of rugged terrain as you trek through the Appalachian Mountains and into Canada where Sunflower overcomes many obstacles and hardships. In the end, Sunflower emerges a confident young woman who is able to share her triumphs, knowledge and skills.