RELEASE DATE: 11/20/25
Isaac, 18, was just 8 when his abusive dad killed his mom, with the horror captured in a single Pulitzer-prize winning photograph: little Isaac, being led from the house with his puppy Miles, splashed in blues and reds of police lights. Today, he’s bullied at school, handled with kid gloves by his adoptive uncle, and spends most of his time with an old and gray Miles, hiding in his parents abandoned house.
But one evening, he discovers his mom’s telescope, tucked away in the old house’s attic. The gift tag on the box is written in crayon, To: Mom, From Isaac. With national and local news swarming for comment on his dad’s upcoming parole hearing, he has to move in the shadows, and night after night that’s exactly where he finds Halley, the new girl at school with an odd affection for breaking into houses and, oddest of all, Isaac.
Using the telescope, with Halley and Miles by his side, he first discovers memories of Mom he thought were lost forever. Then he discovers Planet Nine, a super planet ten times the size of Earth that, until Isaac’s eyes, has only been the stuff of astronomy legend. Now he has a choice: Continue to hide himself and the planet from the world, or risk letting a viral relapse spiral his life out of control again. The discovery of the millennium awaits his decision.
ISAAC AND THE SKY is a YA contemporary complete at 60,000 words. It is reminiscent of October Sky, and is for readers who feel alone in a crowded room.
RELEASE DATE: 11/20/25
Isaac, 18, was just 8 when his abusive dad killed his mom, with the horror captured in a single Pulitzer-prize winning photograph: little Isaac, being led from the house with his puppy Miles, splashed in blues and reds of police lights. Today, he’s bullied at school, handled with kid gloves by his adoptive uncle, and spends most of his time with an old and gray Miles, hiding in his parents abandoned house.
But one evening, he discovers his mom’s telescope, tucked away in the old house’s attic. The gift tag on the box is written in crayon, To: Mom, From Isaac. With national and local news swarming for comment on his dad’s upcoming parole hearing, he has to move in the shadows, and night after night that’s exactly where he finds Halley, the new girl at school with an odd affection for breaking into houses and, oddest of all, Isaac.
Using the telescope, with Halley and Miles by his side, he first discovers memories of Mom he thought were lost forever. Then he discovers Planet Nine, a super planet ten times the size of Earth that, until Isaac’s eyes, has only been the stuff of astronomy legend. Now he has a choice: Continue to hide himself and the planet from the world, or risk letting a viral relapse spiral his life out of control again. The discovery of the millennium awaits his decision.
ISAAC AND THE SKY is a YA contemporary complete at 60,000 words. It is reminiscent of October Sky, and is for readers who feel alone in a crowded room.
Orders will be fulfilled after the release date of 11/20/25.
