By Renée Watson (author)
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Winner of the Newbery Medal 2026
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal winner Renée Watson explores friendship, loss and life with grief in this poignant novel told in verse and vignettes.
Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, 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 dream with, Sage is lost. In a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn't predictable. There is sadness, loneliness, anxiety, guilt, pain, love. Even as Sage grieves, new, good things enter her life - and she just may find a way to know that she can feel it all.
In accessible, engaging verse and prose, this is a 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.
Renée Watson is the acclaimed author of the teen novel, This Side of Home, and two picture books: Harlem's Little Blackbird and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, which was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Her middle grade novel, What Momma Left Me debuted as an ABA New Voices Pick. She lives in New York City.
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Winner of the Newbery Medal 2026New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal winner Renée Watson explores friendship, loss and life with grief in this poignant novel told in verse and vignettes.Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed All the Blues in the Sky and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-12 years old
All the Blues in the Sky features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Stories about Family and Friends, Romance / Relationship Stories, PSHE: Bereavement and Grief, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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All the Blues in the Sky was written by Renée Watson and published by Bloomsbury Children's Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
All the Blues in the Sky has 178 pages
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