Nura and the Immortal Palace

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Dirt poor Nura and Faisal are child mica minors who find each other in an alternate jinn world when the mine collapses.

And later on, I appreciated how she absorbed the lessons from different encounters, she always has her family as her priority. The author does a remarkable job of handling the various tonal shifts balancing the lighthearted moments with the darker serious moments. I won’t get into spoilers so the only thing I will say is that a lot of the circumstances are very similar to our world.What she finds as she digs deep into the mines though, are a pink sea, a purple sky and the realm of the jinn. Nura is given a glimpse and a taste of the luxuries that The Sijj Palace has which she doesn’t have access to at home.

Comparing a book to a Studio Ghibli movie will always, always put that book on top of my to-read list.

She is determined to find a legendary treasure known as ‘The Demon’s Tongue’, and thus provide respite to her widowed mother and four younger siblings from the drudgery of poverty and struggle.

Other great adventure and fantasy books for ages 9+ in a similar vein include; Rebel Skies, Legendarium, The Secret Wild, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, and Oddity. M.T Khan handles these topics in such an appropriate way allowing young readers to pick up on the message woven into the story seamlessly. Our story follows Nura who works in the mines in a small Pakistani town to give her family a better life. In a Nutshell: A children’s fantasy from the Indian subcontinent – what a welcome change and a novel experience!

T. Khan tells a bold tale that challenges greed and inequality as the tough and clever Nura fights the odds from the mica mines of rural Pakistan to a realm of jinn and magic.