CHAPTER AND MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS

DESCRIPTIONTimmi's new friend Rizu is in trouble. Three boys lie in wait for him near the school every day. Timmi, Idliamma and Juju the giant are ...

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 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...

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 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...

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

DESCRIPTIONThe Gap Club has challenged the Fourth Standards to a football match. But they cannot practise unless they get a football! The fate of t...

DESCRIPTIONManya badly, badly wants to be Shere Khan in her school play. The Jungle Book is her favourite film and she knows all the lines. She's s...

DESCRIPTIONMaya has finally become a monitor! But oh no! She's lost the key to the class cupboard! It's not at home, it's not in the playground and...

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: 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...

DESCRIPTIONPeanut used to love the piano. But now it's a big old monster, that comes with lessons, exams and Moonish Sir's scolding, and she's had ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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: ‘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 ...

DESCRIPTIONHydrogen is the simplest element we know. It's in water and in the earth's crust,and now, it's in the hydrogen fuel cell. What is hydrog...

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

DESCRIPTIONArmaan's new dog Bonkers is insane: he chews Armaan's spectacles, eats up his favourite shoe and gets him into deep trouble with the sch...

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

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 ...

DESCRIPTIONThe Orange Marmaladies are back! This time they have captured Rousseau, the timetelling superdog, and taken him to Marmaland, to find ou...

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...

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!...

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 Which substances are polluting air the most? What is the ozone hole? How much CO2 is emitted by burning 1 litre of petrol? Which count...

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...

DESCRIPTIONTimmi's life is full of tangles. Her mother expects her to go to school even though she's a raja; Idliamma eats up all her idlis and eve...

DESCRIPTIONPeanut's plans always end badly! 'No more plans,' says her mother. But the neighbourhood pups need help, so Peanut has to make a new pla...

DESCRIPTIONMy name is V. Arun. I am seven years old. My father’s name is Venkatesh. He is very good. He never gets mad at me. He buys me a lot of t...

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

DESCRIPTIONOne night, in the dim darkness of his room, Moin heard something shuffling and sniffling under his bed ...' It is a monster. Moin has ...

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...

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 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...

DESCRIPTIONRazia Sultan, the dynamic ruler of Dihli, is enraged. Someone is sending her pesky presents--girly dresses and soppy poems on sultanas. ...

DESCRIPTIONGRANNY COOL When a new danger threatens the children of the Gadbadnagar, only Deepu can sense it. His granny, Ninja Nani, aka the Myster...

DESCRIPTIONWhen Jiya meets Urmila, she sees a loud girl with a fierce expression and too-bright clothes. Urmila sees a snooty girl with a dull dres...

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

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

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 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: 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 ‘Sometimes, Korok, it is best if the sorkar forgets you.’ Korok lives in a small Gond village in western Odisha. His life is in the gar...

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...

DESCRIPTIONAbhay is going monster hunting with his friend, Nitya. So what if no one believes him, he knows there are monsters under every bed, and ...

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...

DESCRIPTIONNina is very shy, but she has a secret superpower. When a silver owl disappears from a neighbour's house, it's the shy supergirl who has...

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

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

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

DESCRIPTIONJahan’s best friend Susie has a lisp. The boys in the park tease her and call her Thoothie and the kids at school laugh at her. Fed up, ...

DESCRIPTION Kokachi and Makachi are two little monsters who live on a hill. They are very different other monsters — they are terrified of people! ...

DESCRIPTIONThe great Mauryan emperor Ashoka is furious. Someone is messing with the messages he wants inscribed on rocks and pillars. What's worse,...

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 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 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...

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 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 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 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...

DESCRIPTIONEveryone says Chumki is unlucky and makes things go wrong with her 'magic'. No wonder she has no friends.Can her brother Aki's plan help...

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

DESCRIPTIONWHO'S YO GRANNY? What would you do if you wanted to watch your favourite show, but someone mean and cranky and scary was hogging the TV?...

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

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

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 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 Sumi is not a lucky girl. Her super-chef mom is always feeding her things like pumpkin peel muffins and furryleaf parathas. Yuck. Sumi ...

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

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...

DESCRIPTIONKrish has to give a speech at school. But how can he, when he stammers? And what's worse, his partner is the Big Bully! Will Krish get o...

DESCRIPTION This book tells the survival stories of ten of India’s rarest animals. A few have made truly heroic comebacks from the very brink of ex...

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 ...