Aru Shah and the End of Time

Unreleased

Aru Shah and the End of Time is the first book of Pandava Quartet by Roshani Chokshi. It was released on March 27, 2018.

Synopsis
''Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from their latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?''

''One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. She had told them she was going to Paris, and they had decided to make some cash off her lies. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light,  Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and  never ever fib again.''

''But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.''

The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata'', and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all'' that?

Plot
After some kids from school show up and catch her in the middle of a lie, Aru Shah lights a cursed lamp known as a diya to prove it was cursed and that she is not a liar, which begins to awaken the Sleeper, whose duty is to awaken Shiva, the god of destruction who will perform a cosmic dance to bring the world to destruction.

A pigeon, who calls itself Subala, but Aru calls him Boo, steps out of an elephant statue's mouth and calls Aru one of the reincarnations of the Pandavas as only a Pandava can light the diya. She goes to the Door of Many to summons her awakened sibling. As a reincarnation of a Pandava,  she is a child of a God and hence a demigod. Time is frozen, while Aru has to find the reincarnations of the Pandava brothers while journeying through Naraka. She meets Mini, daughter of Dharma Raja, the first germaphobe demigod in the worlds, and finds out she is the child of Indra and reincarnation of Arjuna. She goes to the otherworld, where there are moths who form the shape of a crocodile, Makara. He confirms they are humans and opens the gate to the Court of the Sky. Mini has acrophobia. “The sprig of youth". “The bite of adulthood.” “The sip of old age.” are needed to go the the Netherworld. They get the first key from Brahmasura. Then they meet Valmiki for assistance, who gives them the mantra “Don’t look, don’t see, there’s no such thing as me."

Chapter list

 * 1) In Which Aru Regrets Opening The Door
 * 2) Oops
 * 3) Wake Up
 * 4) In-ep-tee-tood
 * 5) The Other Sister
 * 6) Look, but Not Really
 * 7) The Council or Guardians
 * 8) Who's Your Daddy?
 * 9) The Three Keys
 * 10) A Trip to the Beauty Salon
 * 11) Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
 * 12) Bring On the Next Demon! Wait, Maybe Not...
 * 13) The Hipster in the Anthill
 * 14) A Trip to the Grocery Store
 * 15) Why Are All Enchanted Things So Rude?
 * 16) That Was So Last Season
 * 17) The Library of A-Z
 * 18) A Strange Case
 * 19) I Really... REALLY... Wouldn't Do That
 * 20) Welp, She Did It
 * 21) The Door and the Dogs
 * 22) Who's a Good Boy?
 * 23) Soul Index
 * 24) Dare, Disturb, Deign
 * 25) What Meets the Eye (and What Doesn't
 * 26) My Home, Not Yours! No Touchie!
 * 27) ...And Then Came the Horde of Godzilla-Size Fireflies
 * 28) The Palace's Story
 * 29) The Bridge of Forgetting
 * 30) The Tale of Shukra
 * 31) This Place Smells Funky
 * 32) 1 on Mini's Top Ten Ways I Don't Want to Die List: Death by Halitosis
 * 33) I'll Be a Cow in My Next Life
 * 34) The Pool of the Past
 * 35) Can You Give Me Better Hair on the Way Out?
 * 36) The TV Started It
 * 37) Attack!
 * 38) Aru Shah Is a Liar
 * 39) Who's the Liar Now?
 * 40) Failure
 * 41) Got All That?
 * 42) Word Vomit
 * Why, Why, Why? Stupid Words
 * 1) Woof
 * Glossary
 * About the Author

Trivia

 * Aru Shah and the End of Time will be the first book released by Rick Riordan Presents.
 * Aru saw a vision that her sisters would turn on her and attempt to kill her.