Dangerous Skies - Softcover

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374416702 ISBN 13: 9780374416706

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

Fast friends throughout their lives along the Chesapeake Bay, Buck, a plantation family's descendant, and Tunes, a slave family's descendant, learn a painful lesson in racial prejudice when Tunes is falsely accused of murder. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

SUZANNE FISHER STAPLES, a former UPI correspondent, is the author of many acclaimed books for young readers, including Under the Persimmon Tree and the Newbery Honor Book Shabanu. She lives in Nicholson, Pennsylvania.

From the Inside Flap:

ous Skies is the story of a friendship that takes root among the grasses and mud flats of the back creeks of the Chesapeake Bay. Buck Smith is descended from the settlers who came from England in the 1700s to farm Virginia's Eastern Shore, Tunes Smith from the slaves who were brought from Africa to work the Smiths' farm. They were raised together from infancy; their friendship is as true and constant as the tides. But as they have grown older, the adults around them have become more watchful, and even though Buck resists the inevitable tug of change in their lives, some changes, like the seasons, cannot be stopped. Then the sudden and horrifying events of a spring afternoon change their world forever.
Told with unsparing honesty and affection, this gripping tale of betrayal will break the listener's heart as it confronts issues of racism and hypocrisy that have plagued our country throughout its history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374416702
• ISBN 13: 9780374416706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240