Their mutual teasing awakens ancestral tangles, though, and soon there’s more at stake than just their high school reputations. Amanda craves the gold that she’s sure her ancestor uncovered before he met his untimely end Jet craves normalcy, and dislikes straightlaced Amanda enormously for her centeredness.
The narrative switches between Spivey’s search on the dusty streets of a young Skunks Dance, California, and a story in the town’s present-where Amanda Spillane and Jet Allan-Ashwood are working on a rivalry of their own, though it’s rooted in more standard teenage angst than Sam and Spivey’s showdown. Sam may be more than a mere rival, though hints of the supernatural whirl around him, and he leaves awful destruction in his wake.
He’s driven by an undefinable need, and believes that his new archenemy Sam is all that stands between him and grand fortune. John Karp’s Skunks Dance is a young adult mystery with its roots in California’s gold rush days, and with a resolution as elusive as a glimmer in the pan.Īt the height of the gold rush, Southern farmer Spivey Spillane leaves home in hot pursuit of a “demon Bible” that he stole from a dead man’s hands-and that was soon spirited away by the darkly enigmatic Alabama Sam. Skunks Dance is solid, sarcastic, and bombastic young adult fare.Īs highfalutin and entertaining as any tall tale told around a prospector’s fire, St.
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