‘You may just find yourself here’ HARMONY
How often have you felt that you just can’t take it any more? Felt that nothing is worth the headache, the heartache? The good news – you are not alone. The bad news – you are not alone, for every teen carries the angst of teenagedom as a badge of honour and, sometimes, dishonor.
Welcome to the battle zone of twenty young people who stand on the precipice of choices and dilemmas. Gritty stories of courage, hope and love. Stories that are not only for you, but about you.
Fourteen-year-old Rasha is abandoned by her mother in a village with her aged – and probably mad – grandmother. Uprooted from her school and her friends back in cosmopolitan Dhaka, a disgruntled Rasha has to start life afresh in a faraway place with no electricity, incessant rains, nosy neighbours and a primitive school.
Refusing to resign to circumstance, however, Rasha rises above them and turns indomitable. Learning to take a boat to school and teaching her classmates how to use computers are only a couple of this young girl’s incredible exploits!
But just as Rasha settles into her new life, new friends in tow, she is confronted by a nightmarish past that once ravaged her family.
Will Rasha survive this daunting and astounding adventure?
Fourteen-year-old Zoom Razdan has always known that there is something extraordinary about her house, which is an inextricably a part of her life as what’s left of her torn, frayed family.
Now, just before her fifteenth birthday, she finds that she has inherited not just her beloved house’s grim secrets but also a battle with an ancient, deadly force of darkness.
Lush and evocative, The House That Spoke is a kaleidoscopic tale that reimagines Kashmir with the colours of magic and is sure to leave you spellbound.
Indian writer Paro Anand writes the story of a young Indian boy, Ganga, and Swedish writer Orjan Persson writes of a young Swedish girl, Helga, both of who visit Goa. It is a first visit for both these teens and although they are strangers, their destinies become tied with one another in a strange and magical way. Under the sea, living the fantastical life of dolphins, they discover each other as well as themselves.
Written as two books in one, following the same sequence of events, this is a unique adventure of self-discovery – as much for the characters as their diverse creators.
It was dark. And I was waiting to die. In the movies your whole life flashes before your eyes before you die. Guess what? Same thing happened. This great life fast forwarded through my head. Except – it wasn’t mine. Someone was inside my head’.
No one has bothered to give Battees a name. Now, as he lies trapped in the rubble of a destroyed orphanage, someone climbs into his head. Rescued, Battees discovers that he is the only one who can put a dreaded terrorist in jail. Suddenly, a lot of people want him dead. Running for his life, he plunges into the dark underbelly of Mumbai. He is sheltered by the dying Eunuch Queen, captured by the terrifying Beggar King and helped by the voice inside his head. Will he make it out alive?
Ela has everything a girl might need. Great friends, cool parents, no pressure to over-achieve and all the space to be herself. On her thirteenth birthday, her perfect world falls apart when she discovers the truth has been kept secret from her.
What happens to Ela as she spirals into rage and grief? Who are the mysterious boy and the giant bird? Will she save herself?
Find out in this compelling novel from Sampurna Chattarji in which the stark realism of Growing up crosses over into the realm of fantasy.
Despised by her father and bullied by his heir, Didda’s childhood is miserable and her future, bleak.
When she is married off to the dissolute ruler of Kashmira, she must learn to hold her own in a court ridden with factions and conspiracies. But Didda is no ordinary queen. Ruthless and ambitious, she wants to rewrite history. Will she succeed?
Queen of Ice is a compulsive read that brings alive the turbulent history of tenth-century Kashmir with an exquisite balance of fact and fiction. This is award-winning author Devika Rangachari’s finest novel yet.
I am nothing, I am something,
I weigh less than breath,
Darkness destroys me and light is my death.
Who am I?
Almost from the moment Maya steps into St. Paul’s College, she is afraid.
Everywhere she goes, she encounters questions and secrets. Not to mention the shadows – a bunch of drop-dead gorgeous students who she realises will do anything to keep their youth and beauty. Even kill.
Maya wants no part in this sinister adventure. She would much rather be shopping for shoes, munching brownies and shedding her geeky image. But the teenager soon finds that she doesn’t have a choice.
Only Maya can see the Shadows for what they really are. Only she can unravel the trail of clues laid long ago by a dead priest. Which is why both the forces of good and evil need her badly.
Unsure about whom she can trust and believe. Maya launches into a clue hunt across Mumbai – and in the process learns about love, friendship and growing up.