TWEENS & YOUNG ADULT (12+ YEARS)

DESCRIPTION What does it take for a person to alter the course of a nation? Spotlighting 25 such change-making individuals, the book looks at the t...

DESCRIPTION "Every time Vismay came home, he expected to find some kind of disaster. He had seen on YouTube how other people recorded their dogs do...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTION Not everyone has two grandfathers quite like Amol’s! From the way they look to the way they speak, the food they eat and the way they t...

DESCRIPTION: A journey to the capital city of India. Follow Tiya as she flies off to her grandparents’ place in Delhi for the first time and explor...

DESCRIPTIONThe past shapes our future, and our planet's past has been an especially fascinating one. Knowing about the origin of life, the extincti...

DESCRIPTION Nothing can go faster than the speed of light. But it seems the superfast, snazzy, chic, and hi-tech vehicles will soon outshine this a...

DESCRIPTION WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF ALGORITHMS: Prepare your little ones for the digital age!The book also guides parents on how to teach your chil...

DESCRIPTION: ‘Here is a fine collection of escape hatches arrayed in front of you: all open, all leading far away from this reality. Why not climb ...

DESCRIPTION Meet Mayil Ganeshan, 12 going on spirited 13, who finally has her chance to say all she wants. But the diary for her is also an importa...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know that light can bend, split, and bounce? Have you ever wondered why we cannot see colour in dimly lit places? Can you name t...

DESCRIPTION Outer space (often called space) comprises the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. In...

DESCRIPTIONWhy are some sounds loud, while others quiet? What is DTS sound? How is an echo formed? What are the causes of sound pollution? This boo...

DESCRIPTION People stranded, schools shut, roads clogged, and electricity snapped—floods can truly wreak havoc and bring life to a standstill. Indi...

DESCRIPTIONCan something as tiny as the atom produce most of the energy the world needs? Can something that has taken thousands of lives be harness...

DESCRIPTION Tired of life in Mumbai with his Chacha and Chachi, Arif runs away – far, far away. He hops onto a train going to Chennai. From there h...

DESCRIPTION The tiger is endangered. The Giant Panda and the Bactrian Camel are also endangered. Their habitat has been destroyed. Their numbers ca...

DESCRIPTION A young monk who likes playing football, a professor who has been studying earthworms for 40 years, a designer with a passion for tap d...

DESCRIPTION: A story about four friends, a city in need of help, a bunch of clueless groan-ups and a very angry, very brown and very dangerous clou...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTION Arun wants a pet crocodile. Now imagine the fun when he ends up with a crocodile that eats butter chicken for breakfast. Karthik loves ...

DESCRIPTIONAre there really diamonds hidden in Bhedaghat? Does little Sibsa's magic carpet fly her out of Tawang? What happens when crocodiles chas...

DESCRIPTION ..stone buildings seemed to rise out of a largely garden-like environment, and in the distance were the towering ghats. Snehagao was......

DESCRIPTION Which Indian state has the maximum number of polluted rivers? What is meant by reverse osmosis? How is water quality linked to human he...

DESCRIPTIONElectricity lights up our homes and offices, and powers appliances like TVs, air-conditioners, and computers. But do you know how electr...

DESCRIPTION The skies shook, then came rains of fire. Yet Garuda, the big, black eagle, pierced through the walls of heaven to snatch away the soma...

DESCRIPTION I can't buy a ticket, but I really need to get on this train… Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classm...

DESCRIPTION“Did we take more than our due?” Weaving his tale around a Gond fable about water, artist Subash Vyam muses on the history of our relati...

DESCRIPTION We live on a rich, colourful and diverse planet. Whether we care or not, understand or don’t - our everyday actions have far-reaching c...

DESCRIPTION First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern’s piece is a darkly comic linguistic caprice. Illustrated with punctuation m...

DESCRIPTION At 13 going on assertive 14, Mayil is now on her second diary after Mayil Will Not Be Quiet. “Teen queen,” says Ma. “Terrible teens,” s...

DESCRIPTIONSita’s Ramayana shifts the point of view of the epic – the saga of a heroic war – to bring a woman’s perspective to this familiar tale. ...

DESCRIPTION BIG HERO — SIZE ZERO. The perfect male-female bodies — says who? Aren’t sex and gender the same thing? Either male or female, right? Of...

DESCRIPTION Santosh travels alone from Mumbai, where he lives with his mother, to Kolkata, on holiday. But he has secret plans to look for his fath...

DESCRIPTION Raghunath boards a train from Mumbai to Vajraghat and shares his compartment with a stranger. Raghunath’s curiosity is piqued when the ...

DESCRIPTIONHave you ever been told ‘Toughen up!’ or ‘Pink is a girl’s colour!’ or ‘Boys don’t cry!’? Are all the men you hear about cricketers, mo...

DESCRIPTIONIt's time to get squeaky clean. Scientists have been exploring, designing and discovering spanking new technologies that would leave our...

DESCRIPTION The devas are at the gates of the asura kingdom, raring to wage war. But the asuras turn up unarmed and jolly! Is their king, Hasyasura...

DESCRIPTION: Nimmi Daruwala is starting Grade 6 and she is sure it is going to be absolutely Spectabulous! Will it? Eleven-year-old Nimmi Daruwala ...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTION Ananya Patel has a penchant for make-up, right from her kindergarten days! Now, a sprightly thirteen year old, her precious cosmetics a...

DESCRIPTION Where does the garbage from our homes land up? What is e-waste? Why is plastic dangerous? How is waste generation linked to global war...

DESCRIPTION: Stories from across the country about people who have special bonds with the wildlife around them: People in Mumbai live with leopards...

DESCRIPTION Twelve-year-old Rini and her little brother Tootoo are intrigued by the new boy, and innocent games soon turn into dangerous ones as th...

DESCRIPTIONFrom a stationary rock to a rushing waterfall, energy is everywhere.This book covers the different types of energy and explains the role...

DESCRIPTIONWhat could Caesar's general have in common with multiplication and weights? Or a Russian waiter with factorials? Or a temple in Hanoi wi...

DESCRIPTION: A journey to the city that never sleeps. Join Raju as he takes you around the magnificent city of Mumbai and introduces you to its inc...

DESCRIPTION Once this book is closed A challenge here is posed To push beyond the boundaries Observe and test surroundings To care for bigger p...

DESCRIPTION Can a smelly monster threaten a town? Or tiny creatures organise a river clean-up Polythene bags, glass bottles, and paper sheets need ...

DESCRIPTIONA sparkling collection of real-life stories of women who have lived extraordinary and inspirational lives, drawn from different times in...

DESCRIPTIONThe Mahabharatha, a great Indian epic, is a compelling chronicle of warring families, clans and kingdoms. Samhita Arni’s re-telling – wr...

DESCRIPTION: Nimmi Daruwala is back with a dreadful+fantastic=dreadtastic adventure! Nimmi Daruwala is back to school after a week of absence, than...

DESCRIPTIONScientists have been exploring, designing, and discovering new technologies that will leave our environment intact instead of destroying...

DESCRIPTION Friends don't say mean things about you behind your back. Friends let you play cricket with them even when they don't need an extra fie...

DESCRIPTION I'm the boss. I make my own decisions. Naresh has the world's coolest mother – she wakes up at midnight, dons a miner's lamp and goes t...

DESCRIPTION How did art begin? Where did colour come from, before paints in tubes and bottles? Taking a long step back in history, this book explor...

DESCRIPTION: A young monk and his friends in Arunachal Pradesh are faced with a sudden challenge: the home of their beloved black-necked crane is i...

DESCRIPTION Manjul finds a calf has been killed and people are saying that there is a leopard on the loose. While walking through the forest Manjul...

DESCRIPTION: A journey to the city of joy. Get on board with Mithu on a colourful tour of Kolkata and dive headlong into a swirl of sights, smells ...

DESCRIPTIONDry leaves and twigs, branches, and dry animal dung have kindled our kitchen fires for thousands of years. These biofuels fell out of fa...

DESCRIPTIONThe Bhil people of Central India are amongst the country’s oldest indigenous communities. To them, the natural world is not ‘a thing apa...

DESCRIPTIONIt's not just plants that use the sun's energy to make their food. So can we. And we can do much, much more. From Roman baths to modern-...

DESCRIPTION Water has many avatars. It can be likened to the holy trinity of creator, preserver, and destroyer. Water is also timeless. Nature has ...

DESCRIPTION Gitanjali is furious with her cousins — Ajay, Ajit and Aveek —who call her ‘Hathni’, she-elephant, to tease her. But the nickname stick...

DESCRIPTION The Chola ruler King Parthiban has a dream . . . he wants to make his empire the most powerful in the region. However, before he can do...

DESCRIPTION: An owlet, a cricketer, a wrestler, an all-important cricket match—and everything that can go wrong is going to go wrong! Ritesh, also ...

DESCRIPTION What if we started our own school? Eleven-year-old Selva's home is a valley with swaying palms, fertile farms and freshwater pools - it...

DESCRIPTIONIt tousles your hair, blows your balloon away, and scuttles clouds along the sky. Millers have ground corn in windmills with help from w...

DESCRIPTION Her diary (or is it her autobiography, she isn’t sure) becomes a rabbit hole and a roadmap to writing her way through life as she sees ...

DESCRIPTION Ten-year-old Advik comes from the US to India, and what is meant to be a quiet visit is about to jolt him! Did he ever imagine that Nar...

DESCRIPTION: On her twelfth birthday, Nimmi Daruwala is super excited about two things: her first mobile phone and her birthday party. But too many...

DESCRIPTION Mystic weaver, radical reformer, loved and hated equally in his time . . . the simple wisdom of his pithy couplets, the famous dohas, m...

DESCRIPTION Can you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels w...

DESCRIPTIONIt can cut through mountains, it can shape civilizations, and it can bring light into people's lives. That's the awesome power of water!...

DESCRIPTIONThe climate of the earth has changed many times before in the planet's 4.5 billion-year-old history. But today, its temperature is risin...

DESCRIPTION Gadgets: those sleek, shiny, snazzy companions you and I love! By making numerous tasks easier, keeping in touch with others and the wo...

DESCRIPTION It’s just before the Mumbai monsoon when the Don and her gang chance upon a mysterious package on the beach, only to find a little pu...

DESCRIPTION For thousands of years, humans have probed and pondered over our planetary home. How was the Earth formed? How old is it? How did it be...

DESCRIPTION: When summer camp is so sweet, can you run from all the fun? Raj is going to what has to be the worst summer camp ever—Camp Sweets, whe...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTIONNo species has changed the environment of the earth as much, and as fast, as human beings. As more and more life forms become endangered...

DESCRIPTION You must’ve read about the magic of the wizards. But have you read about the magic of the wild? Become friends with various wild creatu...

DESCRIPTION Rainwater is the purest form of water on earth and water is a cyclic resource that is continuously cycled in nature and can also be reu...

DESCRIPTION The Jamun Tree and other stories on the environment provides an insider’s view–from the villages, of work related to natural resource m...

DESCRIPTION: Ganga has been flowing through this land for aeons. And thousands of people have walked along her banks, towards her origin in the sno...