![]() ![]() The Stone Lions is an excellent young adult novel set in Spain in the early1400's. Original Awesome Indies' Assessment (5 stars): Time is rapidly running out for Ara to expose him for the evil man that he is.ĪIBA Book of the Day: 3 December, 2021: 037/41712Īwesome Indies Book Awards is pleased to include THE STONE LIONS by GWEN DANDRIDGE in the library of Awesome Indies' Seal of Excellence recipients. They, along with her cousin, then must work together to see that the wazir's plans are thwarted. ![]() Only when she is summoned to learn from the math magician herself is she able to confide in someone whom she can trust. Over the following weeks, she makes several more observations. As she hides in order to keep from being caught where she doesn't belong, she witnesses the Wazir, her father's most trusted adviser, do some magic which just doesn't appear to be right. ![]() As the story opens, Ara has again gone where she doesn't belong because she wants to see the math magician who is arriving for a visit. Ara, a young Muslim girl and daughter of the sultan, is always acting in ways that are just not appropriate for a girl. What an engaging way to teach kids about symmetry, specifically (using easy to understand terms), flips, turns, slides, and glides. This was quite an enjoyable book filled with magic, tension, and math. ![]()
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