Nura and the immortal palace / M.T. Khan.
Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things - to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet galub jamun. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it's not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says there's a buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family's life forever. Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him. Instead, she discovers the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seas - a portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her mother's cautionary tales. Yet they aren't nearly as treacherous as her mother made them out to be, because Nura is invited to a luxury jinn hotel. But there's a dark truth lurking beneath all that glitter and gold, and when Nura crosses the owner's son and is punished, she realizes she isn't the only human who's ended up in the hotel's clutches. Faisal and the other missing children are there, too, and if Nura can't find a way to help them all escape, they'll be bound to work for the hotel forever.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780759557956
- ISBN: 0759557950
- Physical Description: 263 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. Little, Brown and Company. |
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Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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- 13 of 14 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | JF KHA (Text) | 37268003141306 | AHMFL Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | JF KHA (Text) | 33240004966589 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Exeter Community Library | J KHA (Text) | 33249025340955 | Children's Fiction | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | J KHA (Text) | 35740635878242 | Juvenile Fiction | Checked Out | 03/10/2024 |
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | J KHA (Text) | 91083040 | GFWM Robinson Room | Available | - |
Highland Community Library | J KHA (Text) | 35610000998091 | HGHM Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things - to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet galub jamun. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it's not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says there's a buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family's life forever. Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him. Instead, she discovers the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seas - a portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her mother's cautionary tales. Yet they aren't nearly as treacherous as her mother made them out to be, because Nura is invited to a luxury jinn hotel. But there's a dark truth lurking beneath all that glitter and gold, and when Nura crosses the owner's son and is punished, she realizes she isn't the only human who's ended up in the hotel's clutches. Faisal and the other missing children are there, too, and if Nura can't find a way to help them all escape, they'll be bound to work for the hotel forever.