A Little Piece of Sky

A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniquely creative storytelling, painting a story of survival and healing.

Unfolding in a series of vignettes, A Little Piece of Sky introduces an endearing new novelist and a truly unforgettable main character--Song Byrd, a young girl who keenly reports on the world around her. She is African American in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood and the unwanted product of an adulterous affair. While she is poor in the material sense, Song is extraordinarily rich in spirit and it is that inner strength which saves her.

In piercingly insightful prose, Nicole Bailey-Williams takes readers on Song's journey through life as she struggles with feeling like an outsider and intense guilt over her mother's murder. Behind it all, places of pure joy, "dreaming the hurt away," and glorious little pieces of sky shine through. Song's tales--and Bailey-Williams's narrative gift--are truly words to treasure.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 10/08/2002
ISBN: 9780767912167
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.16w x 0.52d
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2002 pg. 970
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2002 pg. 38
Library Journal 09/01/2002 pg. 210
Qbr the Black Book Review 09/01/2002 pg. 8
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2002 pg. 30
Essence 12/01/2002 pg. 114
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2003 pg. 40

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 66992 / Little Piece of Sky
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 3