Saving Sky Contributor(s): Stanley, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061239054 ISBN-13: 9780061239052 Publisher: HarperCollins
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2010 * Out of Print * |
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BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Violence - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LCCN: 2010009393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age Level: 10-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grade Level: 5-8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lexile Measure: 620(Not Available) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.82" W x 8.54" L (0.73 lbs) 208 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Nominee, Junior Book, 2012 Great Stone Face Book Award, Nominee, Grades 4-6, 2011 Sequoyah Book Awards, Nominee, Intermediate, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2010 pg. 69 Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2010 School Library Journal 09/01/2010 pg. 165 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2010 Publishers Weekly 11/22/2010 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 84 BookPage 08/01/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quiz #: 139544 Reading Level: 4.2 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
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Publisher Description: The country is at war, terrorists strike at random, widespread rationing is in effect, and the power grid is down. But thirteen-year-old Sky Brightman is remarkably untouched by it all. She lives off the grid on sixty acres of rural New Mexico ranch land with chores to do and horses to ride and no television or internet to bring disturbing news into her family's adobe house. Sky's schoolmates think she's a little weird. Then a string of mysterious arrests begins, and her new friend, Kareem, becomes a target. Sky is finally forced to confront the world in all its complexity. Summoning her considerable courage and ingenuity, she takes a stand against injustice. With humor, hope, and fierce determination, she proves that even a child can change the world. |
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Contributor Bio(s): Stanley, Diane: - Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Cup and the Crown; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year; Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work. Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. dianestanleybooks.com. |
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