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Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she’ll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?
One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru’s doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don’t believe her claim that the museum’s Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light, Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.
But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it’s up to Aru to save them.
The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?

DESCRIPTION :
‘Has everything I like: humour, action, great characters and awesome

mythology!’ Rick Riordan, bestselling author of Percy Jackson

‘A new star is born.’ Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of ArtemisFowl

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order

to fit in at school. Whilst her classmates are jetting off to

exotic locales, she’ll be at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian

Art and Culture where her mother works. Is it any wonder that

Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and

having a chauffeur? When Aru’s schoolmates dare her to prove that

the museum’s Lamp of Bharata is cursed, she doesn’t think there’s

any harm in lighting it. Little does Aru know that lighting the

lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper,

an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction.

Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and, accompanied

by a wise-cracking pigeon and her long-lost half-sister,

it’s up to Aru to save them.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

DIMENSION : 204 mm x 139 mm
WEIGHT : 260 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Childrens, Teenage & Educational