Book description
# 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in this poignant novel in verse and vignettes.
Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked All the Blues in the Sky as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book takes place in NYC, where the main character longs to be a pilot.
In a beautiful, keystone poem about the blues in the sky (hence the name of the book), Sage sees all of what is beautiful and sorrowful in the world. During the course of the story, she processes the grief surrounding losing her best friend in a way that feels believable.
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