All eleven-year-old Noel wants to do is live a normal life-something that’s the tiniest bit difficult when your dad is Santa Claus. Just as Noel is struggling to cope with her dysfunctional family, her father goes missing in prime Santa Claus season!
When rumours of his disappearance start leaking, a reluctant Noel is packed off on a quest to prevent worldwide elfish panic. And if that wasn’t enough, Gilmore, Coral and Bean, three elves with personality disorders, are along for the ride. This ragtag team has one week to visit six toy factories around the world and stop them from falling into chaos.
With crazy adventures at every turn and Santa still refusing to budge from the missing persons list, saving Christmas seems just a little out of their league
War is here.
Full-scale war has erupted between the Crusaders and the demons and even Chi has to admit that it isn’t going well. Like any sensible rat, Meda’s eager to abandon the sinking ship but, unfortunately, her friends aren’t nearly as pragmatic. Instead, Meda’s forced to try to keep them all alive until the dust settles.
As the Crusaders take more and more drastic measures, the tables turn and Meda suddenly finds herself in the role of Voice of Sanity. No one is more horrified than she is. When old enemies reappear as new allies and old friends become new enemies Meda has to decide-again-whose side she’s really on.
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?
Nothing haunts you like guilt.
Seventeen-year-old Alia is back in Mumbai from exile at an elite boarding school and wants to keep life simple. Her new friends and almost-boyfriend have no idea about her true identity and her troubled past. All that stands between her and happiness is Bobby, a malevolent child ghost who has put a sick chill on life at the family villa. When the all-too-familiar symptoms of a haunting return, Alia’s double-life is in jeopardy, and simple is no longer an option. She must face up to the dark pact her Bollywood stepfather and brittle mother made. But is she merely collateral or can she square off their debt to redeem the people she loves?
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!
After the catastrophic World War III that nearly destroys the human race, the future is now Pangea, run according to The Principles: ‘We will survive as one world, one country, one race.’ True harmony can only exist if everyone genuinely believes in the Pangean way. So, anyone who holds deviant beliefs is ‘washed’ of their memories and implanted with a more Pangean disposition.
Seventeen-year-old Suni is about to begin the perfect Pangean life when her wash is reversed, returning her memories, and she discovers everything she has known about herself is fake. Unable to live that lie, she joins a ragtag group of rebels. On the run, she must come to terms with the man she loved and what he has become, as she struggles to find out who she really is.
A boy who can recall his past life. A hint of hidden treasure. An adventure in the desert of Rajasthan . . .
In one of their most hair-raising escapades ever, Feluda and Topshe set out for Rajasthan on the trail of the parapsychologist Dr Hajra and Mukul, a boy who claims he remembers his previous life. On the way they meet Jatayu, an author of popular crime thrillers, who decides to accompany them. After numerous adventures, including an
impromptu camel ride across the desert, they reach Mukul’s Golden Fortress, where Feluda unravels the many strands of a complex case.
Mambi is a shy little monkey who adores her older jungle friends. If only she could be more like Koko the crow or Tonga the turtle! Then one day, a terrifying danger befalls the forest. Can Mambi overcome all her fears and save her friends? Beautifully told, with charming artwork, Mambi and the Forest Fire is a spirited, heart-warming adventure about discovering your own strengths and celebrating the unique gifts that make every child special.
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?
