‘This could be some new kind of animal. Something new to our forest. Wouldn’t that be exciting?’
When Lori, a curious and wide-eyed slender loris, spies a bewildering cat-like figure in the fading light of the evening, she instantly becomes obsessed with finding out what it is. So she teams up with her friend Don Wrongo, the crafty racket-tailed drongo, to look for the elusive animal.
But they can hardly get to the bottom of this all by themselves. And along their tireless search for the ever-teasing shadow, they recruit the wiles of M. Owli, the non-musical delights of a mob of mynahs, the gossipy banter of Mina Mouse, the faithful love of Kau’a, the wisdom of Viji the all-knowing turtle, the fury of Baba Brown, the-the-Oh, for the love of gordonflies! Who’s not in this book?
Packed with eccentric creatures and heart-stopping turns, Lori’s great big romp is a little look at friendship and self-discovery-and the rush of adventure.
Blessed and badass! Who knew that protecting the sleepy little town of Pistachio could be such hard work? Even heroes need a holiday! So Ann and the Assassin Nuns pack their bags and kitchen equipment (Sister Ruth insists) and head off to the seemingly action-free Peppercorn Bay, where the only thing they’re likely to attack is a plate of fish and chips. But Peppercorn Bay has a history, and our unlikely bunch of habited heroes have no choice but to confront it. With a sword or two, if you please.
Sinister aliens are on the loose …
Money is appearing mysteriously in unexpected places around the city. UFOs have been spotted in the sky. If aliens are trying to take over, they have been very careless indeed!
Will the Superlative Supersleuths be able to foil their diabolical experiments, or will everyone end up being mind-controlled?
Case Notes:
Vipul’s anti-alien foil hat isn’t effective. He’s also very annoying.
Have the aliens made a deal with the tooth fairy?
Why is Ashwin obsessed with poop pancakes?
Eight schoolgirls from the hills on a tour of Agra, drive into Delhi the day Indira Gandhi is assassinated. They run into a violent, crazed mob that pulls their jovial old driver Kartar Singh out and slays him brutally. In a blazing city lashed by violence, the girls flee to seek refuge. They find it in an elegant and apparently empty house but is it safe? Its gallery of forbidding masks and medieval weapons is alarming enough, but worse, it is a house marked by the vicious mob because it belongs to a rich Sikh family with two children. In an adventure gone dreadfully wrong, all that the girls can think of is going home, but the vengeful enemy is right at the door! Led by sixteen-year-old Puja, a masterful archer but with her own personal demons to fight, the girls have to tackle one threat after another, including a chicken thief in their midst. Mustering their wisdom, stealth, cunning and courage, they valiantly keep their conscienceless attackers at bay until they are finally plunged into a quandary where there is only hair’s breadth between killing and being killed. A gripping and powerful story, The Battle for No. 19 highlights the moral dilemmas of young people in today’s world where violence erupts round every corner, and the line between right and wrong runs dangerously thin.
It is India, many centuries ago. Travelling with his father’s circus, ten-year-old Sharat performs amazing feats with his white tiger Emira.
When they have arrived at the City of Jewels, where the troupe must play for the young Emperor, Suleiman, his entourage and the frightening Doctor Rookh, Sharat’s precious tiger mysteriously disappears. Determined to find her, Sharat’s quest takes him into the city’s sewers, through an enchanted garden, past crystal caverns and into a magical underworld where he and his friends finally discover the terrible secret of the Empire.
Take a roller-coaster ride through medieval India and into a world of ghouls, jinnis and magic. This incredibly exciting adventure-the first book in The Queen of the Forest trilogy-will leave its readers craving more.
When eleven-year-old Ann is sent to live with the famous Assassin Nuns of Pistachio, she expects nothing less than a life of swashbuckling adventures and covert rescue missions. Instead, she meets a group of mild-mannered women who prefer soufflés to sword fighting and haven’t stepped out of their mountaintop abbey in years. After Ann discovers that there’s something very nasty going on in Pistachio, she decides it’s time the nuns lived up to their reputation. Armed with wooden spoons, gardening gloves and a malfunctioning robot broom, can these unlikely heroes save the day?
Thirteen-year-old pratik pallavanathan, aka pp’s easy life in dubai takes a horrendous turn, when, during a holiday in India, his redoubtable grandmother insists on a trip to their long-forgotten ancestral village. Cooped up in a rambling house, with on-off electricity, no internet, and annoying relatives, PP feels like he’s losing his mind. And then the hallucinations begin.
In a series of bizarre events, he sees a phantom in his room, the family’s pet cow acts weird in his presence – and a dilapidated corridor leads him to a strange land, straight to his hallucinations. A flabbergasted PP realizes he has time-travelled to 1920, and the hallucinatory phantom is his own ancestor of the time, Simha. PP realizes that he has a connection with simha.
Can PP ward off the catastrophe that’s approaching simha? and can he help realize Simha’s dream?
Meet the Goofies, who are always in a tearing hurry for everything, and find themselves in all sorts of trouble because of it. Now they face their biggest challenge of all—a vacation! The Goofies end up aboard Borg 1, a supposed cruise to Africa, unaware that the vessel is actually a pirate ship on its way to carry out a great diamond robbery!
To add to the madness, Mr Alien, who is convinced that humans have an unhealthy appetite for aliens, is sent to Earth to discover more secrets about the human race—only to get mixed up in the already mixed-up affairs of the blundering Goofies.
Read about the escapades of a paranoid alien, a bunch of bumbling diamond thieves and a weird family in this rib-tickling, roll-on-the-floor, laugh-out-loud adventure of a book!
Veer and Arzaan look uncannily similar but they could not have been more different. At a chance meeting that might have been fated all along, the two twelve-year-olds are stunned by their own resemblance! As they exchange stories, their friendship rapidly deepens over pooping messenger pigeons that one can call with a special whistle, and Dada’s kites dancing in the wind with colourful tails. But their joyous days come to an abrupt halt when Veer is kidnapped by malicious goons and Arzaan makes a fatal sacrifice to protect his friend. Will their bond be enough to save them both or is there only so much two young boys can do?
Obsessed with football, Amar comes up with a brilliant plan-a school football tournament where each class will play as a different ‘country’. But like all Butterfingers plans, this too is doomed to run into obstacles. But with Butterfingers as the goalie, does his team really have a chance? Full of action and adventure, Goal, Butterfingers!, the second book in the Butterfingers series, will make you lose yourself in the hilarious exploits of Amar and his friends as they hurtle through various hare-brained schemes.
