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by Roderick Townley
ISBN 0689857128
$16.95 Hardcover
Atheneum Books
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Alec “Sky” Schuyler has two immediate problems: what to do with the rest of his life and what to do about Suze Matheson, his date for the winter dance. The English teacher, Mr. "Call me Mark" Truscott, has made a move on her, a move that 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. In three sets and an encore, this novel plays the paradiddle and the chords of Sky's life, which, at the moment, is the life of a runaway in New York City, 1959.
About the Author
Roderick Townley is the author of The Great Good Thing, a top ten Book Sense Pick, praised by Kirkus Reviews as "utterly winning...a book beloved from the first page." Townley has also published books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism. He has taught in Chile, worked in New York as an editor, and now writes from his home in Kansas.
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