2009 Silver Birch Award — Winner
2009 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted
2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens — Commended
2008 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award — Longlisted
For Tara and her brother, Suraj, the year their mother and grandfather fled the village of Morni in the middle of the night has been a nightmare. Their new stepmother is cruel and deceptive, and the village itself is lacking a healer. What’s more, men of the village have been disappearing, often returning in a strange, altered form.
When a new healer, Zarku, a mysterious man with a third eye possessing strange power, suddenly appears in Morni, all are mesmerized by his magic – all except Tara, who sees through his evil disguise.
With nothing but her own courage and wit, Tara tries to find her missing mother and grandfather, the true healer, in time to save her village. But along the way she must enlist the help of the god Ganesh and the lord of death, Yama, or she, like others before her, will fall victim to Zarku’s third eye.
- ISBN10 1550027506
- ISBN13 9781550027501
- Publish Date 1 November 2007 (first published 1 January 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Dundurn Group Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English
- URL http://dundurn.com/books/third_eye