Shiva's Fire

This is a book review I wrote a few years ago... just thought that I'd post it anyways.

Shiva’s Fire was written by Suzanne Fisher Staples. The main character is a girl named Parvati, who lived in India. This book is about her childhood and adolescence.

Parvati was no ordinary child. When she was born, she seemed to have a strange gift, the gift of dance. The other people in Parvati’s village thought that she was strange, so they didn’t associate with her.

When she was twelve, the Guru Pazhayanur Muthu Kumara Pillai, a well-known Indian classical dance instructor, recognized that Parvati had a rare talent. He invited Parvati to study with him at his gurukulam. She would study dance, music and other things. Then she meets a boy with his own strange gifts, who turns her life upside down.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this book ten, because of how well it explained the joys and challenges of Parvati’s life.