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Parents' Guide to

Through the Skylight

By Barbara Schultz, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 9+

Suspenseful time-travel tale explores rich culture, history.

Book Ian Baucom Fantasy 2013
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THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT is a suspenseful adventure story full of culturally and historically rich detail. Without being too heavy-handed, the book also addresses ideas of prejudice vs. commonality between people from different faiths, nationalities, and even time periods. This is a very complicated fantasy book, however, where new plot twists, rules, and obstacles are being added up to the every end, to the point where the plot can seem awkward and difficult to follow.

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