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Aru Shah and the End of Time
by Roshani Chokshi
Aru is a pre-teen girl living in the apartment of a museum in Atlanta. She tells tall tales to try to fit in with the wealthy students there. Three of them call her on it and, to prove she doesn't lie, she takes a dare which releases "the Sleeper" from a magical lamp in the museum. All around her freeze, including her mom. Aru had to find her true self and stop the Sleeper from destroying everything and everyone she loves.
A tale of adventure and mythology. HP if he was a she and Indian. Good ending, well done. Closure with the need to read more.
7/19
Aru lives in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture in Atlanta, GA. She was never supposed to touch the lamp (diya) at the end of the Hall of Gods. Her mother is curator Dr. K.P. Shah.
On this Monday on school break, Aru is bored still in her Spider-Man PJs.when the museum bell rings. She answers it and 3 of her classmates from a wealthy, private school are there. She had told the other kids at school that she was going to France over break, but they caught her at home.
She tells them that there is a lamp, the diya, which when lit will awaken the Sleeper, a demon who will summon Lord Shiva, the Lord of Destruction, who will dance upon the world and bring an end to Time. They scoff, she lights it. The Sleeper awakens, time freezes everywhere the Sleeper had been. So the 3 kids are frozen, her Mom is frozen. As she checks things out, a voice comes from the elephant’s mouth in the Hall of Gods. And what comes out is a bird (pigeon) who is really a disgraced being. Aru nicknames him Boo. It is his sacred duty to guide the Pandava brother who lit the diya. The 5 Pandava brothers are heroes because they were sons of gods. She is the first girl. (Arjuna, Yudhistira, Bhima, Nuku’alofa, and Sahadeva. Karna is secret brother) Another sibling has awakened and they go to her (Mini). She’s a germophobe but knows more about what is happening than Aru.
First they visit the gods to get gifts then they need 3 magical items (childhood, adulthood, old age) And then weapons to fight the Sleeper.
So Mini and Aru learn they are better and stronger than they thought they were. Learn Boo is disgraced but had betrayed 5 Pandava in different form. Learn Aru’s mom was in love with Sleeper and he’s Aru’s dad, but Mom bound him in the lamp because of a prophesy. They keep Sleeper from awakening Lord Shiva, but Sleeper is still out there.
Leave the book with Mini and Aru training. Haven’t learned who other Pandavas are yet. Cute boy, Aiden, now across the street from Aru and he seems to be able to see magical things unlike other mortals.
Set up for Book 2.
A tale of adventure and mythology. HP if he was a she and Indian. Good ending, well done. Closure with the need to read more.
7/19
Aru lives in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture in Atlanta, GA. She was never supposed to touch the lamp (diya) at the end of the Hall of Gods. Her mother is curator Dr. K.P. Shah.
On this Monday on school break, Aru is bored still in her Spider-Man PJs.when the museum bell rings. She answers it and 3 of her classmates from a wealthy, private school are there. She had told the other kids at school that she was going to France over break, but they caught her at home.
She tells them that there is a lamp, the diya, which when lit will awaken the Sleeper, a demon who will summon Lord Shiva, the Lord of Destruction, who will dance upon the world and bring an end to Time. They scoff, she lights it. The Sleeper awakens, time freezes everywhere the Sleeper had been. So the 3 kids are frozen, her Mom is frozen. As she checks things out, a voice comes from the elephant’s mouth in the Hall of Gods. And what comes out is a bird (pigeon) who is really a disgraced being. Aru nicknames him Boo. It is his sacred duty to guide the Pandava brother who lit the diya. The 5 Pandava brothers are heroes because they were sons of gods. She is the first girl. (Arjuna, Yudhistira, Bhima, Nuku’alofa, and Sahadeva. Karna is secret brother) Another sibling has awakened and they go to her (Mini). She’s a germophobe but knows more about what is happening than Aru.
First they visit the gods to get gifts then they need 3 magical items (childhood, adulthood, old age) And then weapons to fight the Sleeper.
So Mini and Aru learn they are better and stronger than they thought they were. Learn Boo is disgraced but had betrayed 5 Pandava in different form. Learn Aru’s mom was in love with Sleeper and he’s Aru’s dad, but Mom bound him in the lamp because of a prophesy. They keep Sleeper from awakening Lord Shiva, but Sleeper is still out there.
Leave the book with Mini and Aru training. Haven’t learned who other Pandavas are yet. Cute boy, Aiden, now across the street from Aru and he seems to be able to see magical things unlike other mortals.
Set up for Book 2.