The Maharajah's Monkey (A Kit Salter Adventure)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847245293 ISBN 13: 9781847245298

Publisher: Quercus, 2010

Kit's second adventure, set in India, involves dark secrets at the maharajah's palace, lost treasure, a bear attack in the Himalayas, and a naughty monkey, filled with an ancient evil When world-famous explorer Gustav Champlon disappears just before a trip to India to find lost treasure, Kit Salter is determined to discover why. Tiny footprints in Gustav’s room put her on the trail of a naughty Indian monkey. Before long, she and her friends are aboard a steamer to India on a quest to find the monkey and save Champlon. Welcomed into the palace of the boy Maharajah, a fabulous adventure ensues, complete with tiger hunts, court intrigue, and a mountain expedition to find the lost paradise of Shambala.

About the Author:

Natasha Narayan is the author of The Black Death and Other Putrid Plagues of London and Witches, Wizards and Warlocks of London.

From Booklist:

The clever cover designs of the Kit Salter series, all of which feature an adrenaline-loaded scene (here a tiger jumping out at the pith-helmeted heroine), almost demand that the books be picked up. Narayan’s energetic prose and dauntless young Victorian explorer/detective, Kit Salter, should keep readers plunging through this fourth adventure, wherein Kit and her friends careen around India, from the maharajah’s palace through the Himalayan Mountains, searching for both Kit’s aunt’s partner and lost treasure. This radiates an old-fashioned love of adventure and antiquities, backed up by witty dialogue and pulsating action. Grades 4-7. --Connie Fletcher