"Has everything I like: humour, action, great characters and awesome mythology!" Rick Riordan, bestselling author of Percy Jackson "A new star is born." Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of Artemis Fowl Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. Whilst her classmates are jetting off to exotic locales, she''ll be at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother works. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? When Aru''s schoolmates dare her to prove that the museum''s Lamp of Bharata is cursed, she doesn''t think there''s any harm in lighting it.