Twelve-year-old American twins John and Philippa Gont suddenly discover unusual abilities. And not by chance: in each of them, a fairy-tale kind genie has awakened. Now they must face Evil on a world scale. They are headed on a long and dangerous journey through exotic countries filled with extraordinary adventures and incredible transformations. In this amazing odyssey, the Lamp Kids will first have to find the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten—and then save themselves from him.
The famous Anglo-American publisher Scholastic—who introduced the world to Harry Potter—spent many years searching for a book that could compete for readers’ attention with the global bestsellers of Joan Rowling. It seems they found such a book: a trilogy “The Lamp Kids” written by the British author F. B. Kerr, who is still known in Europe and America as the writer of gripping adult detective stories. “The Genie in Akhenaten’s Prison” is the first of three stories full of mysterious events and heroes as if they came from the world of magical fairy tales of the Ancient East.