TWEENS & YOUNG ADULT (12+ YEARS)

DESCRIPTION What do ancient fragments of cloth found in Egypt have to do with modern-day Gujarat? The answer starts with A — and sets us off throug...

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...

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 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: ‘A collection of rib-tickling, gently humorous and moving stories…feels like a classic.’—Karthik Shankar,The Hindu Is your school a ho...

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 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...

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

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: 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...

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...

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...

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

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 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: 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 In this novel that is part adventure, part mystery and completely captivating, B. Vinayan takes the genre of fantasy to a new realm of ...

DESCRIPTION: The Kadars are a small indigenous community in South India. Even though they no longer live deep in the forest, they still walk its pa...

DESCRIPTION: “Did Amma really steal a bicycle, and is it even possible to wrestle your shadow?” Did you ever wonder how your parents were as kids?...

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 city of joy. Get on board with Mithu on a colourful tour of Kolkata and dive headlong into a swirl of sights, smells ...

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

DESCRIPTION: A superb first book of poetry for children by award-winning author Jerry Pinto. Why is the hamster such a hamster? What’s it with moth...

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 The second in a series of theme-based books, this book focuses on peace. How do children cope with the pressures of divisive and contra...

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