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Sal and Gabi Break the Universe   Heart-warming middle grade sci-fi                I love this book, like all the books of Rick Riordan Presents, a rip-roaring and brilliant sci-fi adventure. I fell in love with  great  Cuban American characters. Sal arrives at his new school in Miami and is in the principal’s office every day . Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared.  When Gabi learns that s ometimes he transports  things from other universes and sometimes he accidentally brings another version of his dead mother into his world , they become friends. But their manipulation of time and space could  break the universe   or save it . "Carlos Hernandez rips through the fabric of space and
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The Trimurti Trimurti on Elephanta Island, India Hinduism   is one of the world's oldest religions. For well over 3,000 years, it has been accumulating the sacred stories   that make up the mythology of Hinduism. Pulsing with creation, destruction, love, and war, the myths changes. Most myths occur in several different versions  while  characters have multiple roles, identities, and histories . There are three core deities called the Trimurti who correspond to creation, protection, and destruction. Themes Around 1700 B . C ., Aryans or Indo-Europeans from the area to the northwest of India began migrating to India. T hey brought a mythic tradition that became the basis of an early form of Hinduism. T he Vedas  are the oldest Indian documents   based on ancient Aryan traditions . One of them, the  Rig-Veda,  is a collection of 1,028 hymns of praise and prayers to the gods with references to myths. The   Brahmanas,  date from 900 to 700 B . C . The  Upanishads,
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Dragonwatch: Wrath of the Dragon King   I think you might love imaginative stor ies  and world buildin g in the Dragonwatch  series , written b y Brandon Mull .   Wrath of the Dragon King  is the second book released on October 2018. The dragons have declared war on human and Wyrmroost faces the greatest threat. After a defeat at the hands of Kendra and Seth, Celebrant, King of Dragons, prepares to take control of his native land. Armed with information from a new ally--Ronodin, the dark unicon--Celebrant seeks a legendary talisman--the Wizenstone, the dominion stone. However, the Stone is protected by cursed castle. Celebrant must take his human avatar form while Kendra and Seth enter to stop him. Will the two young heroes have enough support from the creatures of Wyrmroost against the wrath of the Dragon King?
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The Hidden Oracle The Hidden Oracle is the first book in The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan. I this adventure, all of major characters of Percy Jackson are revised. After angering his father Zeus, Apollo, the Greek god of archery, i s cast down from Olympus. With no god powers, he lands in New York City as a 16-year-old mortal bo y. He must to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemies—gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help from friends-- modern demigods who guide him to Camp Half-Blood.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time I love this middle-grade fantasy book by Roshani Chokshi. It's the first book of the Aru Shah series which is great with exciting plot, characters, and creatures from ancient Hindu mythology,  highly  recommended for fans of Rick Riordan . Twelve-year-old Aru Shah makes up stories to stretch the truth in order to fit in with her classmates. she'll take her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom from her latest trip. One day, three schoolmates catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it.  When she lights the lamp, she frees the awful Sleeper,  an ancient demon who would awaken the God of Destruction, and she freezes the world, her classmates and mother. She has to save them. Aru discovers she is a reincarnation of one of the five Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata, and must journey through th
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The Four Great Kings Four Great Kings are devas in the Indian pantheon where they occupy the lowest of the devalokas (god realms). They feature in some of the earliest Buddhist scriptures, representing a strand of Indian religous thought which was being adopted and adapted by Buddhists, probably in the first few centuries after the death of the Buddha. Each one presides over one of the four directions of space, and is associated with a particular type of non-human being. A very early set of four directional gods appears in the Yajur Veda with Agni (E), Yama (S), Savitṛ (W), and Varuna (N). The gods of the directions were shuffled around in Brāhmaṇa texts. See also my essay on an  early maṇḍalas , which discusses a maṇḍala in the Bṛhadāraṇuaka Upaniṣad. Scholars, however, place there origins of the four Lokapālas in the pre-Ariyan indigenous population of India. I favour a hybrid appraoch. Since some of the figures clearly do relate to Vedic gods in some ways (eg Vaiśravana and
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