About the Author
Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of many award-winning books for young readers. Her novels include the critically acclaimed 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 the body of her work.
Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively imagined fairy tales: THE GIANT AND THE BEANSTALK, GOLDIE AND THE THREE BEARS, and RUMPELSTILTSKIN’S DAUGHTER. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You can visit her online at www.dianestanley.com.
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Novels by Diane Stanley
Bella at Midnight
The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy
The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine
A Time Apart
Credits
Cover art by Cheryl Lynn Graham / Getty Images
Jacket design by Erin Fitzsimmons
Copyright
SAVING SKY. Copyright © 2010 by Diane Stanley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-0-06-123905-2 (trade bdg.)
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200796-4
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