Aru meets one of her 'soul-related' siblings, smart but timid Mini, and they head off to stop the Sleeper from reaching Shiva, Lord of Destruction. With the help of her guardian, a pigeon named Subala, Aru learns that she is the reincarnation of one of five Pandava brothers, each the child of a different god.

Aru's tendency to bend the truth gets her into trouble when three of her classmates dare her to light a supposedly cursed lamp called a diya, which awakens the demonic Sleeper. Twelve-year-old Aru Shah lives with her mother in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture in Atlanta. This series kickoff, which is also the first book from the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, expertly channels the humor and action that have made Riordan's own work so successful. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that? 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. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. 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. 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. Hardcover, Large Print (September 16th, 2020): $22.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.Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Asian.

She lives in the south and says 'y'all,' but she doesn't really have a Southern accent.

The Pandava novels were inspired by the stories her grandmother told her as well as Roshani's all-consuming love for Sailor Moon. She studied fairy tales in college, and she has a pet luck dragon that looks suspiciously like a Great Pyrenees dog. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves. Roshani Chokshi (is the author of the instant New York Times best-selling first book in the Pandava series, Aru Shah and the End of Time, and its sequel, Aru Shah and the Song of Death.

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