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Chokshi, Roshani

Aru Shah and the end of time / Roshani Chokshi.

First edition.

New York, New York : Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group, 2018.

©2018

355 pages ; 22 cm

Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder 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'll never ever fib again. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon who is intent on awakening the God of Destruction. Her classmates and 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 legendary Pandava brothers and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?--From dust jacket.

630L Lexile

Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high) Lexile.

In which Aru regrets opening the door -- Oops -- Wake up -- In-ep-tee-tood -- The other sister -- Look, but not really -- The council of guardians -- Who's your daddy? -- The three keys -- A trip to the beauty salon -- Ashes, ashes, we all fall down -- Bring on the next demon! Wait, maybe not ... -- The hipster in the anthill -- A trip to the grovery store -- Why are all enchanted things so rude? -- That was so last season -- The library of A-Z -- A strange case -- I really ... really ... wouldn't do that -- Welp, she did it -- The door and the dogs -- Who's a good boy? -- Soul index -- Dare, disturb, deign -- What meets the eye (and what doesn't) -- My home, not yours! No touchie! -- ... And then came the horde of Godzilla-size fireflies -- The palace's story -- The bridge of forgetting -- The tale of Shukra -- The place smells funky -- #1 on Mini's top ten ways I don't want to die list : death by halitosis -- I'll be a cow in my next life -- The pool of the past -- Can you give me better hair on the way out? -- The TV started it -- Attack! -- Aru Shah is a liar -- Who's the liar now? -- Failure -- Got all that? -- Word vomit -- Why, why, why? Stupid words -- Woof.

A Pandava novel ; book one

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 12.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #194232.

Reading Counts 3-5 3.5 18 73321.

Lexile 630L.

Accelerated Reader AR 4.7 12.0 194232.

A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)

ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019

Andre Norton Award Nominee, 2019

Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers, 2018

Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

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Fiction

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Novels

Paranormal fiction

Fantasy fiction.

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Mythology, Indic -- Juvenile fiction.

Antiquities -- Juvenile fiction.

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Antiquities

Blessing and cursing

Demonology

Honesty

Museums

Mythology, Indic

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