All the Blues in the Sky
Author:
Renée Watson
Publication:
2025 by Bloomsbury Children's Books
Genre:
Fiction
Pages:
208
Current state:
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Book Guide
Everyone likes beautiful blue skies.
But sometimes? Sometimes the sky is dark blue, black blue, midnight blue.
And sometimes life is blue too.
Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be fun, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died. Without the person she had to hold her secrets and to dream with, Sage is lost.
In a counseling group, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn't predictible. And even as Sage grieves, good things enter her life—steos taken toward her dream of becoming a pilot, new friends, a first kiss—and she just may find a way to know that she can feel it all.
Renee Watson shares a beautiful, important story of a girl's journey to heal, grow, and forgive herself. To read it is to see how many shades there are in grief, and to know that someone understands.
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Renée Watson
AmericanRenée Watson has been a teaching artist for more than ten years, teaching creative writing and theater to elementary, middle, and high school... See more
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All the Blues in the Sky
This book is a Common Sense Selection (Common Sense recognizes outstanding entertainment with an official seal for quality and impact. Common Sense Selections include age-appropriate media with the potential to spark family conversations, entertain families of all kinds, and have a positive, lasting effect on society.)
Parents need to know that the novel All the Blues in the Sky, winner of the 2026 Newbery Medal, is written in a combination of verse and prose by Renée Watson, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ways to Make Sunshine and Newbery Prize and Coretta Scott King Award winner for Piecing Me Together. The main character is 13-year-old Sage, a Black teen living in Harlem, who is grieving for her best friend, Angel Rodriguez, who died on Sage's birthday. Sage, the first-person narrator, describes her feelings and the conversations she has with classmates in a grief group, and with family, teachers, counselors, and the boy in the neighborhood who's taken a romantic interest in her. A girl is killed in a hit-and-run accident by a drunk driver. Relatives of characters died in different ways before the story begins: killed by police, a heart attack, cancer, and of old age. No deaths are described graphically. Romance is limited to a crush and a first kiss.
All the Blues in the Sky
A heartfelt portrait of the complexities of grief and the indomitable human spirit.
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