CHAPTER AND MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS

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

DESCRIPTIONGundu and Keeri Humongoose take a decision! To move out of the jungle! And so begins their adventure into the unknown… filled with dange...

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...

DESCRIPTIONA gang of robbers is cutting and stealing sandalwood trees from the forest near Arun’s house. Worse, the guardian of the forest, fierce ...

DESCRIPTION Meet Squiggle—curious, confused and crazy! AGE GUIDANCE 6+ years CONTAINS 1. SQUIGGLE TAKES A WALK: Squiggle is confused. She doesn’t k...

DESCRIPTION Goldie is missing! Following a clue that a golden dragon was seen diving into the heart of a blue grotto, Aditi and her friends fly on ...

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: 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 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...

DESCRIPTIONThere are strange stories about the big forest at the edge of Arun’s house, and he has been told never to go there. But of course he MUS...

DESCRIPTION Stony Lake, Canada, with laughing loons, sullen sunfish and dangerous deadheads — this is where Aditi and friends are off to this time....

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 An enchanting modern fairytale involving an unlikely foursome. A monkey sets out to explore the world, joined by a curious ant and an e...

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 In this delightful sequel to Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey, the postal parrot brings a cryptic letter with a British stamp for 'Aditi a...

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

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

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

DESCRIPTION Aditi and friends are on a mission again, this time to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef. From flights on dragonback over blue-green...

DESCRIPTION Siril the ant is not his practical, rational self at all. He gazes at the sky all night, mumbles to himself, doesn't answer when spoken...

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

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: 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 Siril the ant finds himself bobbing in his matchbox on a river. Where is he? And how did he get there? With him is a little creature wh...

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 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 An official visit to Prague takes a strange turn. The naughty granddaughter of Princess Libusha casts a spell on Monkeyji, and the only...

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: 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: 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 "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 Danger! That's what the digital butterflies seem to be spelling out. There is a Word eater at large who snatches words as soon as they ...

DESCRIPTION Holiday plans for Aditi and the others go off track when a runaway computer programme, the irrepressible Mistress i, decides to take re...

DESCRIPTION Aditi’s grandmother is unwell, and there is a certain rose that may make her feel better. Does this Deep Rose really exist? No one is s...

DESCRIPTION: FOOD: its textures, aromas, tastes and colours – so much a part of our daily routine. But in our busy lives, how much thought do we gi...

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 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 In A Trail of Paint, Biswajit is dragged unwillingly on a culture trip, to an exhibition of Jamini Roy's paintings. Once there, however...

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 The environment is at risk! Gobby, the naughty little hobgoblin, is practising his magic and running amuck in Antarctica – turning the ...

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...

DESCRIPTIONA little chokli, a stray puppy, wanders into a muddy rain puddle one day and loves the icky, sticky, scratchy feeling. From then on, he ...

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 Is Gardy the lost lion cub prince who, legend says, will return to save the City of Lions? He isn't quite sure but rushes there all the...

DESCRIPTIONA crocodile with no teeth?Poor Grinder N Grater is old and has lost all his teeth. And he is sick of being laughed at by the other anima...

DESCRIPTIONThree days to go before a killer asteroid will end life on Earth! Everyone is in a panic. Everyone, that is, but Vanita, who has things ...

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 My Name is Amrita... is the story of an intensely sensitive and talented girl who grows up to be one of India's foremost painters. It r...

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...