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From the author of The Jungle Book and Kim, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. It is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works.
How did the elephant get its trunk? How did the leopard get its spots? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal and humankind in a fun, eloquent...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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English
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Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With fortitude and courage, she fights poverty and disaster.
Written over 70 years ago, Nectar in a Sieve is as relevant now as when it was first published. The story of Rukmani and Nathan is the story of many Indian farmers yesterday and today....
7) Kim
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In Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel Kim an orphan boy of poor Irish parents makes his living on the streets of Lahore running errands. After befriending a Tibetan monk, Kim undertakes several adventures which ultimately put him at the heart of The Great Game the geopolitical struggle between Britain and Russia for the control of India and Afghanistan. Notable for its vivid descriptions of the people, culture and landscape of India.
8) Tiger boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A tiger cub has escaped from a reserve in the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, and Neel, a poor boy from the islands, is determined to find her in order to save her from being captured and sold on the black market by Mr. Gupta and his men.
9) Six suspects
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English
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There's a caste system-even in murder. Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession, each of them steaming with a secret motive. India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender, and touching,...
10) Sold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
11) Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big cobras who live in the garden.
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
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English
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Batuk is precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by her father when she was nine. On a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for customers to pay for sex she records her private thoughts and stories in a diary.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents a newly illustrated edition of the story of a little African boy in India who loses his fine new clothes to the tigers, but is able to get them back when the animals get into a fight over who is the grandest tiger in the jungle.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
20) One part woman
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Black Cat
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Set in South India during the British colonial period, One Part Woman tells the story of Kali and Ponna, a married couple unable to conceive. The predicament is of major concern for their families-and the crowing amusement of Kali's male friends. From making offerings at different temples to circumambulating a mountain supposed to cure barren women, Kali and Ponna try everything to solve the problem. But a more radical plan is required.
The annual...
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