Pre-teen Adventure Reads

DESCRIPTION Power cut! Suddenly the lights go off and the house is plunged in darkness. Mother lights a candle, and so begins a game of elephant, c...

DESCRIPTION Pranav says he is drawing a picture. But his mother sees nothing on the page! What is Pranav drawing? The narrative and freewheeling il...

DESCRIPTION The great Mor Khan is coming from the city to choose actors for his new film. The birds of the jungle are in a flutter. What should the...

A gang of robbers is cutting and stealing sandalwood trees from the forest near Arun's house. Worse, the guardian of the forest, fierce King Yaksha...

There 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 MUST! So he s...

Three 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 to do. Such...

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

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

Nimmi Daruwala is starting Grade 6 and she is sure it is going to be absolutely Spectabulous! Will it?   Eleven-year-old Nimmi Daruwala does not li...

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

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 cloud. Amni wak...

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 this, he is...

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

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

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 he smuggles h...

"Every time Vismay came home, he expected to find some kind of disaster. He had seen on YouTube how other people recorded their dogs doing nothing ...

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

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, up to some...

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

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

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 Narada, the cel...

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 to... Beaut...

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 same in res...

Holiday plans for Aditi and the others go off track when a runaway computer program, the irrepressible Mistress i, decides to take refuge with them...

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 are uttered ...

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

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

MUMMY'S COMIN'! RUN! There's a mummy at the Gadbadnagar Museum! A real live--er, dead--mummy, and it's awake! And eating people! GRAAAON Wait, it g...

GRANNY COOL When a new danger threatens the children of the Gadbadnagar, only Deepu can sense it. His granny, Ninja Nani, aka the Mystery Hero, doe...

Khari, a demoiselle crane on her first visit to Kachchh, journeys through the beautiful and diverse land, meeting many animals along the way. Dimen...

Fara is a young bee with a dream. Journey with her and members of her hive as they grow up in the beautiful, lush green forests of India. Dimension...

Shero, a little hedgehog, rallies support from animals living in the grasslands, wetlands and deserts of Kachchh, to save their land from a new thr...

The residents of the village Ang find a strange visitor one morning, and want to kill it. A young lad feels differently. Dimensions - 21 cm W x 19 ...

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

HELP! My super-dramatic Aunty Bindi is getting married tomorrow and she's having a mega meltdown. But sssh! I've just found a ransom note, pushed t...

A VERY BAD book that will bring you nothing but BAD LUCK. Luckily no one would want to read it as it is extremely BORING and contains NO ADVENTURE ...