Through the Skylight
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2013
400 pages
978-1-4424-6079-9 (ISBN)
Description
Two tantalizing tales, magically intertwined, cross cultures and span centuries as three kids set out to save the lives of three others?who just happen to live in the Middle Ages!
A stone lion roars...
A sleek black cat speaks...
A faun leaps from the canvas of a painting...
When Jared, Shireen, and Miranda are each given one glittering gift from an old Venetian shopkeeper, they never fathom the powers they are now able to unleash; they never expect that their very reality is about to be utterly upended. And the adventure has hardly begun.
For in another time, centuries earlier, another trio?Rashid, Maria, and Francesca?have been thrown together under terrible circumstances: They have been kidnapped and, along with hundreds of other children, will be sold into child slavery. Unless, that is, they can find some way to save them all.
But all their fates lie in the hands of Jared, Shireen, and Miranda. The future?and the lives?of these three very modern children become entirely intertwined with those of the children from the past. Danger, it seems, has a way of spanning centuries.
?Reminiscent to Cornelia Funke's Inkheart.? ?School Library Journal
A stone lion roars...
A sleek black cat speaks...
A faun leaps from the canvas of a painting...
When Jared, Shireen, and Miranda are each given one glittering gift from an old Venetian shopkeeper, they never fathom the powers they are now able to unleash; they never expect that their very reality is about to be utterly upended. And the adventure has hardly begun.
For in another time, centuries earlier, another trio?Rashid, Maria, and Francesca?have been thrown together under terrible circumstances: They have been kidnapped and, along with hundreds of other children, will be sold into child slavery. Unless, that is, they can find some way to save them all.
But all their fates lie in the hands of Jared, Shireen, and Miranda. The future?and the lives?of these three very modern children become entirely intertwined with those of the children from the past. Danger, it seems, has a way of spanning centuries.
?Reminiscent to Cornelia Funke's Inkheart.? ?School Library Journal
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Ian Baucom is a professor and Director of the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. He is the author of several books for adults and currently lives with his wife and children in Durham, North Carolina.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The Leather Bag
- Chapter 2: The Most Powerful Thing of All
- Chapter 3: Something Missing
- Chapter 4: Followed
- Chapter 5: A Noble Oath
- Chapter 6: "The Ones We Have Been Expecting"
- Chapter 7: The Signore Calls
- Chapter 8: At the Palace of the Doge
- Chapter 9: Into the Fog
- Chapter 10: A Flash in the Gallery
- Chapter 11: "A Crusade?"
- Chapter 12: Proof!
- Chapter 13: The Third Side of the Die!
- Chapter 14: Over the Lagoon
- Chapter 15: A Long-Awaited Meeting
- Chapter 16: A Vision
- Chapter 17: The Island
- Chapter 18: "You Swear It?"
- Chapter 19: The One Good Thing
- Chapter 20: Decide Now!
- Chapter 21: Breaking the Locks
- Chapter 22: "Kill!"
- Chapter 23: Time to Go
- Chapter 24: The Secret of the Pen
- About Ian Baucom and Justin Gerard
- Copyright
