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41) Shiva's fire
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.
42) Ticket to India
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Maya and big sister Zara set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmother's home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India, they become separated and Maya decides to continue their quest to find a chest of family treasures that their grandmother's family left behind when they fled from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition.
43) A time to dance
Author
Language
English
Description
In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
44) The jungle book
Series
Language
English
Description
Mowgli grows up in the Jungle, raised by wolves, but when the tiger Shere Khan threatens his life, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear take him to live with other people.
49) Tiger's destiny
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
50) Rikki-tikki-tavi
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces...
53) Burying the moon
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The sea is inside his blood. Cursed, or blessed, on both sides. When sixteen-year-old Rudra Solace dredges up a long-hidden secret in his father's trawl net, his life in the sleepy fishing village of Patonga shifts dramatically. It is not long before Rudra is leaving Australia behind, bound for India on a journey of discovery and danger. A wonderfully compelling tale of belonging and loss, of saltwater and mangroves, of migration and accepting change;...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Bina has three older brothers and this year she wants to make them bracelets for Raksha Bandhan, an Indian holiday that celebrates brothers and sisters--but first she must come up with patterns that include only their favorite colors, plus one unique bead that celebrates their special interests.
57) The jungle book
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Includes songs of the animals.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross the world's highest mountains and face hunger, exhaustion,...
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