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Sky

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By Roderick Townley
Publisher Simon Schuster Children's Publishing - (AtheneumRichard Jackson Books)
Sky
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Alec Schuyler has two immediate problems what to do with the rest of his life, and what to do about Suze Matheson. Shes his date for the Winter Dance. And shes got trouble of her own. The English teacher, Mr. Call me Mark Truscott, has made a move on her, a move which Sky has witnessed from his hiding place in a coat closet.Fifteenyearold Sky is not one for making scenes or even speaking up. Instead he speaks through his music, his jazz piano. This novel, in three sets and an encore, plays all the chords and paradiddles of Skys life at the moment, the life of a runaway in New York City, 1959. So how come hes hiding in a tenthgrade homeroom coat closet?Since his mother died, Sky and his father have had their umpteenth fight about the future. Like many a kid, Sky must leave home to get home. For him its the world of Beat poetry and cool jazz. Along the way, he discovers an unexpected guide a blind musician who shows Sky how to see and learns what he has to lose to gain his own voice.

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48206 words48,206 words
272 pages272 pages
Lexile 600LLexile 600L
Published 2004Published 2004

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9780689857126

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