Sky

by Roderick Townley

Fifteen-year-old runaway Sky is only comfortable communicating with the world through his music, but after being befriended by a blind musician, he learns an important lesson about life and begins to see the world with a new set of eyes, in a coming-of-age story set in New York City in 1959.

Genres: Young Adult

272 pages, Hardcover

First published June 29, 2004

About the author

Roderick Townley is an American author of juvenile, young adult, and adult books, including books of poetry, nonfiction, and literary criticism. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and was for many years a poet and fiction writer, and for a time lived in New York City and wrote for TV Guide, The Village Voice and other publications. In 2001, he began the Sylvie Cycle, a metafictional series about the spunky, fictional Princess Sylvie who lives her life in a book.

Reviews

[Josh Whetsell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would give it four and a half stars if I could, because the characters are amazing and the storyline is pretty good to. The ony two reasons I did not give it five stars: it is set in 1959, so some of the language is hard to understand, and the book ended a little early.

[Mia♫ · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a great book if you know a lot about music. I don't so much but overall it was good. I didn't like the ending, was waiting for more. I mean I wanted to see what happened to Sky. Did he end up getting mad at Max and Suze? Or did he just go on with life? How about that girl Jill, are they going out now?? The book left me with so many questions. As well as if Art dies, I couldn't tell from what Roderick said in the book.

[Scott Tobin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a good example of the fact that books don't start at the beginning and don't finish at the end. My ONLY problem with this great book that has a few beautiful metaphors is how short it is. This book could have gone on much longer and still held my interest, I know it could have.

[jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

High school friend who wrote a story about our school days and included me...so proud of his writing. Mainly writes for young adults.