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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
2014-03-04 18:17:27
You might try the Convenient Eclipse and Total Eclipse of the Plot pages to see if anything seems familiar.
Zadia
Since: Jan, 2001

A children's book about some kids who somehow ended up very far from home with no easy way back. The only bit I remember clearly is one where one character gets picked by a tribe of native people to be their human sacrifice to the sun, and another character manages to save his life by pretending to 'challenge' their sun god right when a solar eclipse occurs.