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1) Tiger boy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
6) Monkey play
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three little monkeys swing through a market in India causing mayhem as they playfully pass through the stalls.
7) Kim
Author
Formats
Description
The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands. An aged Tibetan Lama is on a journey to find the mythical "River of the Arrow" and in doing so free himself from the Wheel of Things. Becoming his disciple, Kim joins the Lama to travel along the Grand Trunk Road. But Kim also gets himself involved in the Great Game, Russia and Britain's political conflict in Central Asia,
...Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
11) The jungle book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, the "man-cub, " abandoned as a baby by his parents and raised by the wolves in the wilds of the jungle.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In this "candid, perceptive and intelligent" trio of novellas, the acclaimed travel writer presents tales of Westerners transformed by sojourns in India (Independent, UK).
These three intertwined novellas by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar capture the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths to discover truth, peace, or woe.
A middle-aged...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In India, Raju is angry about spending two months on his aunt and uncle's farm while his family attends a wedding in England, but things looks much brighter after he becomes mother to a newly-hatched chick.
16) Rikki-tikki-tavi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
17) I kick and I fly
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"On the outskirts of the red-light area in Bihar, India, Heera is living on borrowed time until the day her father decides to sell her into the sex trade to repay his loans. It is, as she's been told, the fate of all women in Girls Bazaar to end up there. But what if she can learn to fight back against 'fate'? When a local hostel owner presents her with the opportunity to practice kung fu, Heera begins to learn that her body isn't an object to be...
Author
Publisher
Chariot Victor Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Description
In this adaptation of an Indian folktale, a thief travels with a wealthy jewel merchant and tries and fails several times to uncover and steal his treasures, but in return the merchant offers the thief God's forgiveness and a life in Jesus Christ.
19) The Konkans
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In Chicago in the early 1970s, Francisco's Konkan father, Lawrence, wants desperately to assimilate into American culture-pursuing a corporate job and launching an uphill battle to join the local country club. But Francisco's American mother, Denise, a Peace Corps veteran who finds the suburbs utterly boring, wants to preserve the family's heritage, feeding Francisco's imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history-with enthusiastic help...
20) Good night India
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Night Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Good Night India highlights the Himalayan Mountains, Golden Temple, Valley of Flowers National Park, Palace of Winds, Hawa, Mahal, Mehrangarh Fort, Goa, beaches, dolphins, lions in the Gir Forest, tigers in the Sundarbans, Darjeeling tea, blue train, elephants, and more.
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