TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peckham,Anthony
TI  - Children of the black glass
T2  - Children of the black glass
SN  - 9781665913133
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
KW  - Siblings
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Obsidian
KW  - Quests (Expeditions)
KW  - Magicians
KW  - Adventure stories
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - "A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book"; Ages 10-14; Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Grades 4-6; Atheneum Books for Young Readers
N2  - Two years ago Tell and Wren's mother went down the mountain and never came back; now, with their father blinded by a shard of black glass, the two children will take the same journey to try and save their father; In an unkind alternate past, somewhere between the Stone Age and a Metal Age, Tell and his sister Wren live in a small mountain village that makes its living off black glass mines and runs on brutal laws. When their father is blinded in a mining accident, the law dictates he has thirty days to regain his sight and be capable of working at the same level as before or be put to death. Faced with this dire future, Tell and Wren make the forbidden treacherous journey to the legendary city of Halfway, halfway down the mountain, to trade their father's haul of the valuable black glass for the medicine to cure him. The city, ruled by five powerful female sorcerers, at first dazzles the siblings. But beneath Halfway's glittery surface seethes ambition, violence, prejudice, blackmail, and impending chaos. Without knowing it, Tell and Wren have walked straight into a sorcerers' coup. Over the next twelve days they must scramble first to save themselves, then their new friends, as allegiances shift and prejudices crack open to show who has true power
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