Sky

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.. Fifteen-year-old 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 tenth-grade 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.