The First XI: Junior Premier League – Vol. 1 features a story revolving around the game of cricket when Neel meets a boy named Sachin during his winter holidays in Ranchi. The plot unfolds when the vacations are over and Neel returns back to his hometown in Delhi. Neel doesn’t think about Sachin much as he gets engrossed in his life where he wants to get selected on to Junior Premier League team of Delhi. So he starts practising harder to get selected by the team of Delhi for the first Junior Premier League cricket match. But one day, Sachin comes to his aunt’s house in Delhi due to his father being transferred out of Ranchi. While staying there, he meets Neel when he lands up in the Junior Premier League team. What follows after that is an amalgamation of fear, hope, disappointment and excitement, which help keep the readers constantly engaged.
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Wicked Games
They think they’re invincible. After seventeen very ordinary years of life in small-town America, Amit Pillai suddenly finds himself on a red-eye flight to Kerala. An NRI, he is forced to join the posh Ananthapuri International School, the only school in town that accepts ‘soft boys’ like him. But this Kerala is faux Americana where it’s all loud music and lined pockets, and there is never enough time to stop and look around. Amit quickly discovers that life here is anything but soft. Struggling with love and identity, he is never quite sure where to draw the line, when his fragile existence at school is rocked by a series of shocking events. What have they done? What are the consequences? And can they live with them? A roller-coaster ride through the real-time experiences of an Indian teenager, Wicked Games is contemporary school life told like never before.
Crushed
Meda’s back. With a friend.The battle is over; the choice has been made. Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead.The problem is the only people less convinced than Meda of her new-found role as Good Girl are the very Crusaders she’s trying to join. So when a devilishly handsome half-demon boy offers escape, how’s a girl supposed to say no?After all, everyone knows a good girl’s greatest weakness is a bad boy.
Victory Song
The year is 1939. In the little village of Shona Gram in Bengal, Neela hears about how the freedom fighters will stop at nothing till they send the British back. The day after her sister’s wedding , her father goes to Calcutta to join a protest march called by the Congress. He promises to be back in a week. But when three weeks go by and there is still no sign of him, Neela decides to take matters into her hand. Dressed as a wandering minstrel, she arrives in Calcutta. There she befriends Bimala, the rich daughter of a judge and cousin of Samar, a young freedom fighter Neela had rescued from the police in her village. They begin a desperate search for her father and get to know he is in jail and that he will be deported to the Andaman Islands in a few days. Neela has to free her father before that . But can a twelve-year-old girl outwit the mighty British empire? Set in a dramatic period in India’s history, this racy adventure will have you turning the pages to find out if Neela finally manages to succeed in her mission.
Fun In Devlok Omnibus
* Why is Indra an unhappy god?
* Why is the cow such a cool animal?
* Who is the demon of forgetfulness?
Master storyteller Devdutt Pattnaik answers these curious questions and reveals many more secrets of the world of gods and demons in this delightfully illustrated omnibus, featuring all six tales in the Fun in Devlok series.
Follow Harsha as he discovers the secret to happiness, listen to Gauri’s fascinating conversation with a talking cow, play dumb charades with Shiva, find out why identity cards are important even for Krishna, join the fight between Kama and Yama and learn why the river Saraswati disappeared mysteriously.
Full On Fashionista
Angie Kulkarni is totally NUTS about fashion
and loves putting together zany outlandish
outfits! But life isn’t easy when your mother,
Bollywood superstar Kajol Kulkarni, constantly
doubts your style and thinks you’re a complete
fashion disaster!
Rusty The Boy From The Hills
Rusty is a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy who lives with his grandparents in pre-Independence Dehra Dun. Though he is not the adventurous himself, the strangest and most extraordinary things keep happening around him.
The house in Dehra is full of strange creatures. Rusty has to deal with everything from his grandfather’s pet python to the ever-inventive Uncle Ken. Visiting his father in wartime Java, Rusty narrowly escapes enemy bombardment, and survives a plane crash in the Arabian Sea. Back in India, he spends his time encountering a ghost in the garden and recreating his grandmother’s youthful days from an old photograph. Then, something totally unexpected happens and Rusty is forced to leave
Dehra, his future uncertain …
This volume of Rusty stories, the first in a series, traces Rusty’s development from early childhood to his early teens and is a riveting read for younger and older children alike.
Rusty Runs Away
In the five years of his life that this book traces, Rusty’s story is taken forward to his adolescent years. His world is turned topsy-turvy as many upheavals besiege him. After his father and grandmother pass away in quick succession, the twelve-year-old is left in the care of a guardian, Mr Harrison, in Dehra. But after a mysterious incident involving his stepfather and the gardener, he is sent away to boarding school. Restlessness compels him to run away from school, with an ambition to travel the world.
But the plan fails, and he is soon back in Dehra, with his strict guardian. Rusty is now seventeen. He rebels and leaves home again, this time for good.
Adventurous and thought-provoking, Rusty Runs Away is a book that children and young adults everywhere will enjoy.
The Secret Diary Of The World’s Worst Friend
‘How would you feel if you had no friends? Not one.’
Fourteen-year-old Akash wins a scholarship to one of the most expensive schools in Delhi, and is thrilled when he is immediately accepted into the ‘cool’ gang of the class. But soon he discovers that his new friends aren’t exactly what they seem to be.
Rusty And The Leopard
A chronicle of Rusty’s rebellious, eventful progression into manhood.
Rusty, having run away from his guardian’s home, is now trying to define his identity as he lives with the Kapoor family, tutoring their son Kishen and occupying the room on the roof.
Soon, he becomes close to Kishen and, in the company of Meena Kapoor, begins to come into his own as an individual. Then tragedy strikes-Meena’s death evastates Rusty, and he leaves Dehra. Rusty and Kishen take to the open road, and their adventures accumulate as they tramp through the Doon valley and the Garhwal hills.
Full of incident as well as introspection, this is a book older children will thoroughly enjoy.