Watson doesn’t write any of this as character flaws or heavy-handed hardships. Ryan also doesn’t consider herself a star student. She’s not exactly straight-laced - we see her disobey her mother’s orders, gossip about another girl in solidarity with her best friend, and play a retaliatory prank on her brother without remorse. Watson does a great job with Ryan’s voice, so we learn a lot about Ryan in her own words.
With Ways to Make Sunshine, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson brings us a confident, bright, aspiring chef named Ryan Hart, an African American girl “with a name that a lot of boys have.” When we meet Ryan she is in the fourth grade and lives with her mother, father, and older brother in Portland, Oregon.
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