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Tidestep: The Water Anchor
Paperback
Series: The Saga of Arthios, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9781971673042
Publisher: Cauldron Books LC
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Zaphiel is eighteen, a blacksmith's apprentice, and the last person anyone expects to chase thieves across Arthios. When a stone is taken from the village water well and a blight descends upon the land around it, he goes anyway.
He doesn't go alone. What begins as a handful of people with nothing in common becomes something closer to a family, including a girl whose aim is better than anyone expects, a companion whose gift works only by strange and costly rules, and a dog who is no ordinary dog.
Chance throws them together. They choose to stay.
Running beneath their quest is a second story. Fifteen thousand years ago a woman began a journal, and she has been keeping it ever since. She has seen this ending before and she may have a plan for it to go different this time. The characters have never read it. Your students will.
What the companions recover matters more than any of them know, and the ones who took it are not finished.
The first quest is complete in one volume. The Saga of Arthios is just beginning.
***Bronze Medalist - Young Adult/Fantasy & Sci-Fi, 2026 Moonbeam Children's Books Awards***
The Classroom Edition carries the same story with language adapted for school use. The companion educator guide is free under a classroom-use license: chapter-segmented lessons, Common Core aligned discussion questions and writing prompts, vocabulary in context, comprehension checks with answer keys, and a cipher-decoding activity built from the book's own runic epigraphs.
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