Skylight
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- Synopsis
- Spring break. Phoebe was home, and she and Buddy were at last together again, climbing the dark stairs to her father's observatory. Under the skylight, Buddy was bursting: I stared beyond her at the hook of the moon, and at the millions of stars, and I don't know why, but I was tempted to wave, as though I were saying hello or good-bye. Which is what Phoebe complained we were always doing. She and Buddy were at schools far apart, Phoebe in college in Massachusetts, he a senior in high school in northern Michigan. Socially they were far apart too. Phoebe's odd and vivid family was used to privilege. Buddy's widowed father, who worked nights at the local tire plant, distrusted privilege and wanted Buddy to do the same. Buddy wanted out, period--and Phoebe was his way. Come June, he'd move east with her, get a scholarship, have it made. He was smart enough. But no matter who else happened in his life after that--Leo Tomashek, who drove a Ding Dong ice cream truck; Lynette Wallaker, slow dancing in a dream; Johnny Huskey, owner of the Sunoco station back home--there was always his father, and the pull of the heart. Hello and good-bye are just the beginning.
- Copyright:
- 1991
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 180 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780531059616
- Publisher:
- Scholastic, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 04/07/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Jack Driscoll
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Grade Levels:
- Seventh grade
- Submitted By:
- Marilyn
- Proofread By:
- Lisa Cushman
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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