Supernatural seventh-graders forge their own path to stardom… but stardom has its costs! Liska, Ephy, and Airin are thrilled to finally attend their dream school, Eclipse Arts, where they can let their talents and passions shine…there’s just one big problem: their families. Ephy’s family wants her to become an instant star, while Liska’s passion for music clashes with her family’s reputation. In singing, Airin finds relief from a terrible family curse. But when a stunning opening ceremony cements their dreams, Liska, Ephy, and Airin band together and set their sights on winning the quad talent show. But their families and competition, fellow classmate Oliver, would do anything to stop them from winning, especially Airin. Eclipse Arts is a cozy middle grade fantasy for ages 8 to 12.

Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, and theology? The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes - into labs, archives, and museums, as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behaviour, and ecophysiology. Carefully prepared for readers from all backgrounds, these voices invite us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions. A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses emerges, itself rising to a model of communal thinking, together, across disciplinary borders. This book is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament. Dedicated to him and to astrophysicist Jay M. Pasachoff (contributing author of a chapter about the solar corona, also Pasachoff's final piece of writing), the volume is a friendly companion to the chase of knowledge, encouraging its readers to embark upon their own interdisciplinary journey of discovery.