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The Sky Is Everywhere

by Jandy Nelson

A teenager copes with the sudden death of her sister

2010Fast paceMelancholic

What it is about

Lennie Walker is a seventeen-year-old musician whose older sister Bailey dies suddenly. She becomes close to her sister’s boyfriend and also meets a new boy. Her notes are scattered across the story.

Who will enjoy it

Readers who like emotional YA.

What you will get

A debut that was adapted into a 2015 film.

The Sky Is Everywhere Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting

Genre

Young Adult · Grief · First love · Music

Length

320 pages · ≈ 9 h

More about this book

Characters

Lennie Walker, her grandmother and Uncle Big.

Setting

Clover, a small California town.

What makes it different

A story of grief told with poems and scraps of paper.

Feel

Poetic, sad and warm.

About Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson2 books on Tori BooksAmerican author. I'll Give You the Sun appeared in 2014.

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