"Struts and Frets" by Jon Skovron

the main character in this book, named Sammy, is, in my opinion, sort of your average teenager, but more strange. The way he talks about life is different from what you'd expect a teenage guy to think about. In a way, there are little file cabinets that are all disorganized inside his head. And because of his disorganization of his mind file cabinets, it drives him nuts, and you can see this in the way he talks and behaves. Sammy doesn't have a care in the world about school work, but there is not anyone to blame except for himself, which he doesn't seem to understand. He seems to try to blame everything but himself in order to make himself feel better about his decisions. I don't think he knows what exactly goes on sometimes, and that he just has his own little world that he likes to believe is true, or could happen. That's the problem, though. Sammy just doesn't know how to bring himself back to reality, back to the real world, where unpredictable things happen.
That's where the music comes in. Playing the guitar and writing songs comes naturally to Sammy, which is where his mind wanders off to.
Maybe this is why he can't fall asleep at night.