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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Jungle Book is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal stories, wonderfully told and interweaving moral lessons with classic tales. They include the stories of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a brave mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the story of a young elephant handler. The Jungle Book was first published by Macmillan in 1894.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Astonished to learn that the father she never knew is actually Bollywood's biggest celebrity, Abby travels to Mumbai to meet her father and struggles with cultural differences, the challenges of her identity, and her changing sense of self.
3) Tiger boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dylan, an aspiring photographer, is spending a month in Mumbai with his friend Rohit Lal and his family, but knowing nothing of Indian culture, he cannot seem to do anything right (do not hit cows!)--and the situation is made worse by the tensions within the Lal family over whether Rohit should be raised in India, which Mr. Lal's wealthy sister is pushing for.
Author
Series
Ash Mistry chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
British schoolboy Ash Mistry, the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka and an agent of the goddess of death, faces the evil Lord Savage again after the villain sends his minions to capture Gemma, Ash's unrequited crush.
Author
Series
Archer legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old billionaire Gerald Archer and his friends Ruby and Sam Valentine go on vacation to India, hoping to forget about Mason Green and his diabolical quest, but secrets from Gerald's family history and Green's minions have the trio in trouble again.
11) Ticket to India
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Maya and big sister Zara set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmother's home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India, they become separated and Maya decides to continue their quest to find a chest of family treasures that their grandmother's family left behind when they fled from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an archaeologist in India finds a magical stone, becomes an evil rakshasa, and begins turning the villagers into zombies, Pi is called upon for help--but soon it seems everyone around her, including the other members of the Kid Squad, are also zombies and she must find the solution on her own.
13) Shadowland
Author
Series
Brotherhood of the Conch volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A search to find the magical conch shell and restore it to its proper home deep in the Himalayas sends Anand and Nisha to the bleak futuristic city of Coal, where the air and water are polluted and the upper classes live in luxury under hermetically sealed domes.
14) Chloe in India
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Though they're divided by class, language, appearance--you name it--Chloe and Lakshmi have a lot in common. Both girls are new to Class Five at Premium Academy in New Delhi, India, and neither seems to fit in. But they soon discover how extraordinary anordinary friendship can be and how celebrating our individuality can change the world"--
Author
Series
Grand plan to fix everything volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Armed with a photographic memory, twelve-year-old detective Agatha Mistery heads to India to assist her uncle Raymond--a wildlife photographer and a snake charmer--on a mission to find the famous Pearl of Bengal, an ancient artifact that was stolen from the temple of the Hindu goddess Kali.
17) The conch bearer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When the Thea Sisters' friend Ashvin is in trouble, they rush to his aid--in India! Ashvin has been working to return the monkeys living in the big city to their natural jungle environment. But the monkeys have suddenly started stealing jewels! Can the Thea Sisters figure out who is behind this terrible theft?"--P. [4] of cover.
19) The jungle book
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Includes discussion questions.
20) Blue jasmine
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.