Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1)

In this enchanting adventure by Roshani Chokshi, twelve-year-old Aru Shah grapples with her tendency to embellish the truth while spending her autumn break at the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture. When her classmates dare her to prove a curse surrounding the museum's Lamp of Bharata, she accidentally unleashes an ancient demon, freezing her friends and mother in time. Now, Aru must embark on a perilous quest to find the reincarnations of the legendary Pandava brothers and travel through the Kingdom of Death to save them all.