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Synopsis
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Is The Obsidian Blade appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 11 and up.
A middle grade time-travel adventure with mysterious disappearances and religious elements. Contains mild peril and some scary imagery with ghostly figures, but appropriate for the intended age group.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death of parent and abandonment.
Who'll love this
Readers who love time-travel mysteries and adventures with secret portals will be hooked by Tucker's quest to find his missing parents.