Dalya and the Magic Ink Bottle

by J.M. Evenson

Overview

When twelve-year-old Dalya is dragged to Istanbul to help sell her family's ancestral home, the visit begins unpromisingly. Most of the aged mansion is off-limits because it's falling apart, her father is ignoring her, and her great aunt keeps prattling on about a family curse. Despite warnings against it, Dalya tiptoes upstairs, where she finds an old bottle of magic ink hidden under a floorboard. She asks the bottle's jinn (aka genie) to grant her a simple wish...to send her home. Except the jinn interprets "go home" to mean "send me back in time and turn me into a cat." Then Dalya must set off on a wild adventure through Istanbul's animal underworld to find the jinn with the power to set things right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684461301
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	670L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

J.M. Evenson holds a PhD from Michigan and an MFA from UCLA. As a screenwriter in Los Angeles, she worked as a consultant at Netflix; pitched and developed ideas at production houses from DreamWorks to Focus Features; and taught writing at Pepperdine University. She visits Istanbul yearly to see family and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and kids.

Interviews

The Wizard of Oz meets Back to the Future in this middle-grade novel, a charming tale that combines adventure with cultural literacy and self-discovery; An intriguing tale told with vivid writing and crisp pacing; Set in Istanbul, Turkey, the story brings to life a place unfamiliar to many readers and introduces the culture in a way that honors it; The author has family in Turkey and has visited the area extensively