Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this fantasy adventure by
New York Times best-selling author, Roshani Chokshi, inspired by the
great epics she grew up on.
Named one of 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time magazine!
Twelve-year-old Aru Shah 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?
A New York Times best-seller.
Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
soon to be a series on Disney+.
Enjoy the entire Aru Shah Pandava series!
- Aru Shah and the End of Time (book 1)
- Aru Shah and the Song of Death (book 2)
- Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (book 3)
