The Savage Fortress (Ash Mistry #1) by Sarwat Chadda.
Arthur A. Levine, Scholastic, New York, 2012.
MG fantasy, 292 pages.
Lexile: 660L .
AR Level: 4.6 (worth 10.0 points) .
Ash Mistry is the pudgy video-game-loving Indian mythology nerd we never realized we needed to save the world. Spending the summer with his sister visiting his aunt and uncle, he gets caught up in a strange archaeological dig, which leads to even stranger events.
This past year, two debut MG fantasy series drawing from Indian culture have gotten a lot of buzz – Aru Shah in the Rick Riordan imprint, and Scholastic’s Kiranmala Chronicles. But those series are only releasing about one per year, so what’s a fantasy lover to do in the meantime? Binge this already-completed trilogy, of course!