The Battle
โ Scribed by Karuna Riazi
- Publisher
- Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The game begins again in this gripping follow-up to The Gauntlet that's a futuristic middle eastern Zathura meets Ready Player One!
Four years after the events of The Gauntlet , the evil game Architect is back with a new partner-in-crime--The MasterMind--and the pair aim to get revenge on the Mirza clan. Together, they've rebuilt Paheli into a slick, mind-bending world with floating skyscrapers, flying rickshaws run by robots, and a digital funicular rail that doesn't always take you exactly where you want to go.
Twelve-year-old Ahmad Mirza struggles to make friends at his new middle school, but when he's paired with his classmate Winnie for a project, he is determined to impress her and make his very first friend. At home while they're hard at work, a gift from big sister Farah--who is away at her first year in college--arrives. It's a high-tech game called The Battle of Blood and Iron, a cross between a video game...
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