The Sky Is Everywhere (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Lennie Walker: Main Character. Full name is Lennon (as in John Lennon) Walker. Lennie for short. Clarinet player in band. Younger sister to Bailey Walker.
• Joe Fontaine: New boy in school and classmate of Lennie. Musical prodigy. Moved to town recently from Paris.
• Toby Shaw: Boyfriend of Bailey. Cowboy/Skate-Junkie.
• Gram: Maternal Grandmother of Bailey & Lennie. Has an incredible green thumb and love for all shades of the color green. Also a painter and slightly eccentric.
• Big: Uncle to Bailey & Lennie. Brother to Paige Walker (Bailey & Lennie's Mother). Known as the town Lothario. Has a crazy push broom mustache.
• Sarah: Lennie's best friend. Plays the drums in band at school. Has the goth-punk-hipster-emo-hippie thing going.
• Bailey Walker: Sister and best friend of Lennie. Dead.
• Paige Walker: Lennie and Bailey's mother, who left them when Lennie was a year old.
• Rachel: Mean girl who is first chair
• Marcus Fontaine: Joe's bro

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• “Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.”

  Lennie

• “He's staring dreamily into my eyes. Heathcliff and Cathy have nothing on us.”

  Lennie

• “What's wrong, Lennie?Nothing.Tell me.No.C'mon, spill it.Okay. It's just that you're different now.How?Like Zombieville.I'm in love, Len - I've never felt like this before.Like what?Like forever.Forever?Yeah, this is it. He's it.How do you know?My toes told me. The toes know.”

  Bailey & Lennie

• “Va Va Voom”

  Marcus

• “"I feel Baily," I say finally, the sense of her overwhelming me. "In this room, with us."”

  Len

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• Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

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• “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”

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• You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It’s your solo.

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• Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

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• I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

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• I’d need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

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• “But if you’re someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren’t you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?”

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• And when we kiss, I see that on the other side of that door is sky.

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• It’s as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

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• Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

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1. Jandy Nelson (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Publishers Weekly Flying Start (2010, one of five)
• Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award (Finalist, 2012: Young Adult)

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• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Teens › Social Issues

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