Nura and the Immortal Palace

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Instead, she findsherself within an enchanting realm of pink seas and purple skies – the realm of jinn. However, a mining accident that buries some of the children including Nura’s best friend Faisal shifts her desperation into finding him. Nura and the Immortal Palace follows Nura, a 12 year old girl who is one of countless children working in the mica mines of Meera Bagh to help her single mother support their family. Nura has worked all her life in the mica mines, earning just enough to keep her family afloat – and enjoy the odd delicious gulab jamun from the market.

Nura and the Immortal Palace by M. T. Khan, Hardcover Nura and the Immortal Palace by M. T. Khan, Hardcover

nura and the rest of the kids in the mica mines risk their lives everyday to earn a little bit so that they can provide extra for the family. A “phenomenal and tender debut” novel about a family who embark on a road trip across Malaysia before the world ends has won the Waterstones children’s book prize. K. Khan tackled the topic of child labour/exploitation with a sensitivity and honesty that perfectly matches its middle grade market without sugar coating its dangers and wrongness.Nura and The Immortal Palace is a heartwarming story about friendship, magic and child poverty and labour. In the midst of trying to kind of work out those anxieties through writing, I realised the only thing we can do is care for the people we love every day and hope for a better future for them even when things seem hopeless,” she added. Comparing a book to a Studio Ghibli movie will always, always put that book on top of my to-read list.

Nura and the Immortal Palace by M. T. Khan | Waterstones

This precious mineral is needed for manufacture of all things glossy such as cosmetics; items that Nura can only dream of as she earns precious rupees to support her mother and three siblings. Local rumor says there’s buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family’s life forever. personally, i wish the theme of education was tackled with more nuance and framed a bit differently (with the onus being more on government/structural failures rather than the protagonist's individual choice) but i understand that's unfair to expect from a short middle grade book.Prose style: enjoyable (being a teacher of English of course I was making a mental note of each simile I read 🤣) I would love to teach this text to my year 7 students! This is a story about clutching on to hope despite your situation, about allowingyourself to yearn for more than just the food on your plate or nice clothes to wear –it’s about dreaming big.

Nura and the Immortal Palace Kid’s Book Review: Nura and the Immortal Palace

In the mines she has the company of her best friend, Faisal, who is teased by other kids for his stutter, and she enjoys small pleasures like splurging on gulab jamun. Luckily, she can confide in her Uncle Ivan, who is next door in Gorilla World, and Uncle Bob, the dog who lives nearby with human friend Julia. This book is a perfect remedy for anyone who is suffering from Studio Ghibli withdrawal and needs to be immersed in a spectacularly detail-rich world immediately.when nura’s excitement caused the collapse of the mica mine, she along with the rest of the kids were transported into another world, into a luxury hotel with jinn roaming freely. The atmosphere is cozy and daunting, colourful yet dark + explores family, faith, and fear (of jinn). And later on, I appreciated how she absorbed the lessons from different encounters, she always has her family as her priority. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around July 5, 2022. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.

NURA AND THE IMMORTAL PALACE | Kirkus Reviews

Nura has worked all her life in the mica mines, earning just enough to keep her family afloat - and enjoy the odd delicious gulab jamun from the market. I cannot help but wish that younger me—Kurdish and Muslim me—could pick up this book and read it for the first time again. And as the wonderful Charlotte does die, the sadness is tempered by the promise of more spiders next spring.Nura was a bit irritating at times, but it was exactly the kind of stubbornness and slight egotism that would be realistic for a 12-year old forced to take on too much responsibility too early, and I loved that she ultimately was driven by love and care for her family and friends. Nura has heard tales all her life about the amazing Demon’s Tongue – a piece of mica that would make her so rich her family would never need to work again. because of her actions, the mine collapsed, her friends buried under, going missing and landing up at the jinn hotel. I did think some things happened a little too fast, and the writing was a little choppy at times, but it was also beautiful, and the emotions came through perfectly nonetheless.