The five fakirs of Faizabad

Format:

Book

Title:

The five fakirs of Faizabad

Author:

Kerr, Philip.

ISBN:

9780545126588

9780545126595

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Orchard Books, 2010.

Physical Description:

439 pages ; 24 cm

Series title(s):

Children of the lamp ;

Number in series:

BK. 6.

Summary:

Fourteen-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa travel from the Himalayas to Yellowstone National Park seeking to uncover and protect five holy men before the wicked djinn responsible for upsetting the balance of the world's luck finds them.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 5.5 16.

Reading Counts 6-8 6.2 24.

Subject(s):

Jinn -- Juvenile fiction.

Magic -- Juvenile fiction.

Fortune -- Juvenile fiction.

Twins -- Juvenile fiction.

Siblings -- Juvenile fiction.

Himalaya Mountains -- Juvenile fiction.

Yellowstone National Park -- Juvenile fiction.

Himalaya Mountains -- Fiction.

Yellowstone National Park -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Himalaya Mountains -- Juvenile fiction.

Yellowstone National Park -- Juvenile fiction.

Himalaya Mountains -- Fiction.

Yellowstone National Park -- Fiction.

Himalaya Mountains

United States -- Yellowstone National Park

Genre:

Holds:

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Summary

Magical adentures always seem to find the Gaunt twins, and the siblings are quickly drawn into yet another mystery when the world's luck tips wildly out of balance. The key to the world's fate appears to in Shangri-La, after five fakirs were buried alive. Each fakir guards a secret that can answer a great question of the universe. But there's an evil djinn desperate to dif up one of the secrets. Can Jogn and Philippa find it first? And can they harness their powers to defeat this mysterious new evil? Find out in the sixth book in the Children of the Lamp series!

Author Notes

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 22, 1956. He received a master's degree in law from the University of Birmingham in 1980. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked as an advertising copywriter. His first novel, March Violets, was published in 1989 and became the first book in the Bernie Gunther series. His other fiction works for adults include A Philosophical Investigation, Esau, A Five-Year Plan, Gridiron, and Hitler's Peace. He won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction.

His non-fiction works include The Penguin Book of Lies and The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy. He also wrote young adult books under the name P. B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series and One Small Step. He died of cancer on March 23, 2018 at the age of 62.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

With bad luck outweighing good in the world, djinn twins John and Philippa search for the cause. They uncover an evil djinn plot to wrest a secret of the universe from the fakir who possesses it. Meanwhile, John's attempt to see into the future leads to great peril for the butler Groanin. This sixth magical action-adventure is another solid series entry. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.