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The Eye of the Forest is the fifth installment of seven in the Children of the Lamp series. Summary. Mrs. Gaunt will be going to go to a plastic surgeon djinn named Dr. Kowalski to make Mrs. Gaunt's body look just like her former one.
Jan 1, 2008 · The Eye of the Forest by P.B. Kerr is the fifth book of The Children of the Lamp series. It is another exciting adventure about genies or “Djinn”, as they like to be called. The two main characters of the book are John and Philippa Gaunt. The two children are twins and they live in New York City.
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Feb 18, 2014 · The eye of the forest. by. Philip Kerr. Publication date. 2009. Topics. Genies -- Fiction, Magic -- Fiction, Twins -- Fiction, Brothers and sisters -- Fiction, Incas -- Antiquities -- Fiction, Amazon River Region -- Fiction. Publisher. Orchard Books.
Mrs. Gaunt goes to go to a plastic surgeon djinn named Dr. Kowalski to make her body look just like her former one. However, djinn can no longer ride whirlwinds safely because of global warming, so she has to fly down to the doctor in Brazil on a regular airplane.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gaunt is kidnapped while his wife is away by three black druids from near Stonehenge. During that time, John and Philippa were at Mr. Vodyannoy's other house. According to Mr. Vodyannoy, the west wing is safe but the east wing in not able to be navigated. The butler's sister is lost in the east wing. Also, no djinn power can be used in the house. John daringly goes to see the talking boards in the east wing to try to contact Mr. Rakshasas' spirit, but he awakens an ancient Incan named Manco Capac instead.
He escapes and regains his mummy from the Peabody Musuem. John brings Grace back to her brother and goes to the museum in his ethereal form. Another unrelated thief stole three sacred gold disks and broke some things, and the news says a thief in Berlin stole an ancient Incan staff. The news then shows a picture of a door shaped like an eye in the Peruvian forests that leads to...nowhere.
Nimrod says that it's the Eye of the Forest and leads to a place that could cause the end of the world. They fly down to Peru after consulting with Faustina Sachertorte, the Blue Djinn of Babylon , and getting the one copy of the map to the "Eye" in the world. They bring Zadie Eloko with them. The tour guide is "Sicky," who has a tattoo on his stomach that acts like Medusa. His head is abnormally small due to an accident with enemy Indians when he was young.
They are nearly killed several times by unusually large animals. John later discovers that Zadie is causing it. She was hypnotized by Virgil Macreeby. Zadie accidentally makes a wish that Pizarro would "teach a lesson" to the Indians chasing them. John and Nimrod reach the Eye - the news story was a hoax. The real door is rectangular and tied with a knotted string made from human hair.
John leans against a lupuna tree and gains some of its knowledge. He unties the knot and rescues the others from mummified Indians. Nimrod awakens some Inca kings who go to fight Pizarro's army. Soon Virgil Macreeby, Dybbuk and Zadie arrive. They get the disks that Nimrod stole from Zadie. They are intent on using them to make an obviously fake ritual to remake Dybbuk's powers and turn lead to gold.
Jan 1, 2009 · Bestselling author P. B. Kerr is back with a fifth book in his highly imaginative and magical CHILDREN OF THE LAMP series!
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Philip Kerr. Orchard Books, 2009 - Juvenile Fiction - 424 pages. In their latest adventure, John and Philippa Gaunt find themselves tangled up in a spellbinding mystery that takes them deep into...
Oct 1, 2011 · Eye of the Forest (Children of the Lamp #5) P.B. Kerr. Scholastic Inc., Oct 1, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 432 pages. Another highly imaginative and magical story in bestselling author P. B....