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    <body><![CDATA[     Shiva's Fire by Suzzanne Fisher Staples is Fiction.It is told in 3rd person.Parvati is the main character who is very gifted in dance.DANCE IS HER DESTINY. On a day when fish leap among the stars and birds soar beneath the waters, a remarkable girl named Parvati is born in a village in the Sout...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8840954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up expecting the riveting characters and conflict of Staples' other books (Shabanu, for example.)  I was disappointed.  The cultural descriptions were engaging, but there was no conflict to make it live.  As various situations unfolded, I kept thinking, &quot;Ah, here we go.  Now somet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17691226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really wasn’t a bad book, except for the underlying need for the author to again, throw horrible event after horrible event at the protagonist that really was unnecessary. Reading page after page on how her mother suffers due to the entire village somehow blaming HER for the tornado that dest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79331184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I read when I was a little younger. I was in love with reading but this was a stage in my life where I just absolutely hated it. However, this book made me fall in love with reading again. It illustrates a beautiful tale with supernatural magic, dancing, friendship, romance, and what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43815286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shiva's Fire by Suzanne Fisher Staples is a great book about a girl named Parvati who's destiny is dance. She was born in southern India on the day of a terrible cyclone and on the king's birthday. On that same day her father dies leaving a statue of Nataraja Swami(dancing Shiva) for her to keep in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42136596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely love this book!  It was something that I read in middle school and loved it!  Since I am studying to be an elementary school teacher, I took a literature class where we had to do a Book Share.  The book had to be a chapter book and it could be any level.  I was going to do the book that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60927970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parvati is a talented young girl, but on the day of her birth, storms wreck her entire village. All villagers then think she is bad luck. Even though she is a “jinx” to the village, Parvati gets the opportunity of her life. She is given the chance to study music and dance, and become a devadasi....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12660665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fun. I enjoyed experiencing Parvati's journey with her as she discovered her destiny through dance. It had good elements of destiny, growth and perseverance. The author did a good job blurring the line between reality and the supernatural. I would have liked to seen a little more depth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44961669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parvati is born with incredible abilities. She can communicate with animals and is a skilled dancer from birth. Unfortunately she was born on the day of a devastating storm and her neighbors see her abilities as sign  that she is possessed and caused the storm. This changes when she is chosen to be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41440978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Set in an Indian Village Parvati's Life began with destruction and her destiny to dance. Bravely growing up knowing she was the cause of her village's cyclone she finds her true dharma in the dance of Lord Shiva, and from there her creation begins.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember a lot, but I remember I liked it, and I wanted to *see* the dancing. I'd be interested in rereading it, now that I've studied a little about the Hindu religion. It's a young adult book, but well worth it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A cool story about a young dancer in India who has special powers. Yard sale find. I'll probably give it to my cousin when she turns 10 or so. Liked it, but the ending was disappointingly sudden and lacking in resolution. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it! This plot gives off a sense of karma and superstitions. This also talks about gods and goddesses. It's good. Nice resource for religion study in global.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story about a girl named Parvati born with powers of Hindu Gods. Ever since her birth, tragic events have occurred. As a result, a source of bad luck. Her greatest power is in the art of a classical Indian dance—the Bharatanatyam. Parvati makes an important decision to leave her family in order ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46517860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read. Staples portrays modern day India with great precision - I felt as though I was in the story myself.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parvati's passion for dance leads her down a different path . . . I love this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED THIS BOOK! it taought me new things about indian culure i never knew]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like it so far, and I can recognize a lot of things from my own life!]]></body>
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