Padma Venkatraman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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...
2) Growing Gold
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this story from India, a farmer's three lazy sons don't want to work, they just want to make a lot of gold. When their mother tells them about gold buried in the field, they discover the value of a good day's work.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
8) Island's end
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world.