NIST comments:
Y10: "It was funny and pretty good, I loved how the main character, Kiran, is really relatable and Neel, the potential love interest, is awesome."
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Publication
Scholastic Press (2018), 368 pages
Description
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
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Awards
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — Children's Literature — 2022)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Junior — 2021)
Garden State Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2021)
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2019)
Lectio Book Award (Nominee — 2019)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Honor Book — 2019)
Kansas NEA Reading Circle Recommended Book (Junior — 2019)
Nerdy Book Award (Middle Grade Fiction — 2018)
Penn GSE's Best Books for Young Readers (Selection — 2018)
Language
Original language
English