Kumari
Subtitle: Goddess of Gotham
By: Amanda Lees
Publisher: Piccadilly
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781853409233
Subjects: Goddesses; Juvenile fiction
Description: Kumari is a goddess-in-training who lives in a secret valley kingdom. She is destined to stay young forever, unlike people in the World Beyond. But Kumari longs to break out of her closeted life at the Palace, where her only real friend is a baby vulture, and there's nothing to think about ...except the mystery of her mother's death. It's hard to kill a goddess, but someone did. And so Kumari steals away to the Holy Mountain, determined to summon Mamma back from the dead and to find out the truth. But the next thing Kumari knows, she's in Manhattan. Surrounded by strange buildings and even stranger people, and running for her life through Macy's Parade...