Product Description
Pepper Masalah and the Flying Carpet by Rosanne Hawke is a series of five story books featuring an adventurous black cat called Pepper Masalah, and her nine-year-old friend, Zamir.
Pepper Masalah lives with Zamir and his family on an olive farm in Australia. Zam’s grandmother is from the old country (Kashmir) and she brought with her an ancient carpet. She believes the carpet can fly, and that it will try to find its previous master in Kashmir. It hasn’t flown for hundreds of years so it is shaky at first, and can’t find its bearings. It lands in many countries on the way to Kashmir, where Pepper Masalah and Zamir have dangerous but exciting adventures.
In the 5th book, the carpet flies Pepper Masalah and Zamir to Kashmir and lands in the aftermath of a modern-day earthquake. When Pepper is kidnapped and locked in an animal shelter by some thieves, she meets a snow leopard, a cat, and a woman named Jani, who reminds her of Zamir’s Dadi. Despite Pepper’s clever plan to release the animals and reunite with Zamir, the new group cannot evade the thieves. It seems only Jani will be able to help. Will Zamir and Pepper find a way to escape? Or will Jani’s secret change everything?
Reviews
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adventure, friendship, loyalty, heritage, courage, resilience, environment, family, community, danger, earthquake
Pepper and Zam have been on a series of adventures around the world and through time. Now, they are travelling to Kashmir. As they fly on the carpet, they see tents and land the carpet by a lake to explore. They see the ruins of concrete houses after an earthquake. They meet a boy named Naz in a tent village who says he came from the city Muzaffarabad and that they’re in modern Azad Kashmir. Zam and Pepper discover a scheme to steal money from the earthquake victims and decide to put a stop to it, discovering new friends and family along the way. An exciting adventure to end the series, about family, friendship, and determination. This is the fifth book of the Pepper Masalah series.
