2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Fiction

The Serpent's Secret: Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond

On the morning of her 12th birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular 6th grader living in New Jersey, until her parents mysteriously vanish and a drooling rakkhosh demon slams through her kitchen, determined to eat her alive! Suddenly, Kiran is swept into the underworld, where -- among other things -- she must avoid the Serpent King and Rakkhoshi Queen in order to save her parents, the entire state of NJ, the world, and everything beyond it.