The stone lions

By Gwen Dandridge

Subjects: Andalusia (Spain), Tutors and tutoring, Alhambra (Granada, Spain) (Title), Mathematics, Symmetry (Mathematics), Magic, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Alhambra (Granada, Spain)

Description: In the last throes of the 14th century, Islamic Spain is under pressure from Castile and Aragon. Ara, the twelve-year old daughter to the Sultan, finds herself in the center of a political intrigue when her eunuch tutor is magically transformed by the evil Wazir. Can a little girl save her friend and tutor with the help of a Sufi mathemagician? Intertwined in a mystery of math, art and magic, Ara races to find the seven broken symmetries before time runs out.