"A family curse that turns spoken prophecy into truth. A world where your soulmate's feelings appear as words on your skin. A boy who has to decide whether or not to attend his brother's wedding even though their parents have forbidden it. A girl who encounters the boy she loved and lost and realizes where her heart truly lies. These genre-bending stories focus on the magic (and tension) of the biggest family gathering. Both award-winning and debut...

In this adaptation of an Indian folktale, as a thief travels with a wealthy jewel merchant he tries and fails several times to uncover and steal his treasures, but in return the merchant offers the thief God's forgiveness and a life in Jesus Christ.

Based on true events in India in the 1970s, young Aani and the other women in her village defend their forest from developers by wrapping their arms around the trees, making it impossible to cut them down.

After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.

In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.

Seven-year-old Bulu describes events surrounding the arrival of two wolf girls at her orphanage, including attempts to teach them to eat properly and to speak.

"Kali's father is a snake catcher--the best in the village. Kali knows that is something to be proud of, but at school he sometimes gets embarrassed. The other children seem to think there is something very strange about having a snake catcher for a father and eating things like fried termites for a snack..."--Jacket.

Presents a selection of stories inspired by traditional Indian folklore, in one of which, "All's Well with Mango Pickles," Prince Veera and his best friend, Suku, preside over the court of the prince's father and must solve the mystery of how jewels turned into pickles.

In the jungles of India, Mowgli, a human boy, grows up under the protection and tutelage of a pack of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the panther, and Baloo the bear, but must choose one day between humans and his animal family.

"Pandurang, the fruit-seller, is so dour that he can make milk turn sour. One day he coughs up a feather. As the story of Pandurang's feather is passed from one person to another, it grows and grows until it can hardly be recognized. And that's when the story weaves its magic on the ill-tempered Pandurang. An international version of 'broken telephone,' The Rumor is a funny cautionary tale about the nature of rumors."--From publisher description.