Kid-Smart Puzzles for real Smart Kids!
How clever are you? Dare to find out with this mind-stretching, brain-building and, above all, entertaining collection from USA Today puzzle creator TERRY STICKELS.
Tackle towers of Sudoku, straighten out twisted anagrams, solve picture problems-with these puzzles, you’ll have loads of fun proving to your friends that you’re a bigger brainiac than they are.
Are you ready for the challenge?
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P.I. Pojo
‘Something smells fishy here and I don’t mean Mr H’s uneaten dinner.’
Meet Pojo Pande, aspiring private eye prowling the corridors of Heathcote International with a ready ear for eavesdropping and a nose for intrigue. And he’s got two sidekicks-Radha Rao, a senior and the latest in a long line of Raos to skirt the school rules and Pops, a pesky junior who insists on being Pojo’s protégé.
Together, they face the toughest case of their career yet-the killing of Mr Heathcote, the beloved school cat.
Join Pojo on his adventures in this hugely funny, unputdownable book as he gets to the bottom of the killing of Mr Heathcote!
Crossed
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.
The Assassin Nuns of Pistachio
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?
Become A Junior Inventor
Ever wondered how roller coasters work?
Been fascinated with nuts, bolts, screw drivers, batteries, switches, wires and bulbs?
Get acquainted with these movers and shakers of the world of gadgetry around us . . . and become a Junior Inventor yourself! Put together by Cloud Mentor, a company that guides kids to become budding inventors, this fun book is specifically designed for today’s readers and has tons of activities to keep them happily occupied.
Featuring almost every conceivable topic of interest-from machines, circuits, kitchen innovations to design basics-this incredible book helps children unleash their creativity and innovative best. Learn how to make an automobile run, create your own traffic light at home and explore the science behind your favourite remote-controlled toy.
Work on these supercool DIY experiments and more, discover some amazing facts and experience the magic of science like never before!
A Flag, A Song And A Pinch Of Salt
Police batons, prison sentences or the hangman’s noose-nothing could stop them. They stood up against the biggest colonial empire in the world and all they had was their courage and passion for freedom. Relive the exciting story of our struggle for freedom through the lives of our greatest freedom fighters as they carried the defiantly fluttering tricolor towards a dream called India.
Saffron White & Green
It is one of the most exciting stories in history – the glorious tale of how the powerless, unarmed people of India came together to defy the mightiest empire in the world. The British empire had tightened its noose around a country split by religion, class and caste. But when the people rallied under the tricoloured banner of freedom, it was with a power that stunned even the strongest. No one had seen such a revolution before. what was truly extraordinary was that India won her independence not through an armed uprising but by persistent, peaceful, non violent protes. Ordinary men and women stood up against the might of the Birtish Empire, valiantly facing police batons and guns. They marched singing of freedom and faced the hardships of prison, bonfires of foreign cloth lit up the Non cooperation movement. Thousands followed Mahatma Gandhi as he marched to Dandi. And a nation of millions held its breath proudly as jawaharlal Nehru spoke of its tyst with destiny. not long after, India inspired colonies across the world to stand up and demand independence. Thsi si sth estory of Ahimsa, sayagraha and Swaraj, of non – violence and the struggle for truth – all for the one thing that is most valuable to a people and to a nation : Freedom.
The Secret Sanctuary
Lost in the jungle… surrounded by wildlife and magic!
Welcome to the Secret Sanctuary
A magical jungle where laughing thrushes brush against your cheek and barking deer stop to be petted; an enchanting wilderness where you can tug a monkey’s tail or share a den with a mountain bear.
Or go in search of a rare mountain quail.
Or listen to a concert at dawn.
Or walk through a spider’s web as if it wasn’t there.
Or follow a blood trail through the jungle.
This idyllic world is a natural paradise. There is only one catch. Once you enter, you may never be able to go back.
Time Racers
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?
I See You
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?