The GauntletA 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. |
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User Review - jennybeast - LibraryThingI agree that we need diverse books, and this Bangladeshi take on Jumanji has a lot to recommend it, and a few areas that fall short. The characters are good, the puzzle solving/board game aspects are ... Read full review
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User Review - bookwyrmm - LibraryThingJumanji meets The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, but with a Middle Eastern twist. The main character was well constructed, but her friends needed a little more fleshing out. Read full review
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| Title | The Gauntlet |
| Author | Karuna Riazi |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1481486985, 9781481486989 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › › Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Middle East |
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