The gauntlet / Karuna Riazi.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Salaam Reads, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 298 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481486965 (hardcover)
- 1481486969 (hardcover)
- 9781481486972 (trade paper)
- 1481486977 (trade paper)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Riazi Karuna | 1 | Available | 33111008600666 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Riazi Karuna | 1 | Available | 33111008748317 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that's a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.
Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet...
It didn't look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked...elegant.
It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images--a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider--and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand .
The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.
Ages 8-12.
When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.