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1) Tiger boy
Author
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
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"It's Friday night, and on the bustling streets of Mumbai, a girl heads out with her family to the cinema. As she rides through the winding blocks with her maa, baba, and bhai, old melodies fill the car. And as she captures the sights and sounds of the city with her camera, she imagines a movie unfolding before her eyes. A choreographed dance sequence atop a long line of cars! When they arrive at the screening, the room is abuzz with people from all...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Appears on list
Description
Bina has three older brothers and this year she wants to make them bracelets for Raksha Bandhan, an Indian holiday that celebrates brothers and sisters--but first she must come up with patterns that include only their favorite colors, plus one unique beadthat celebrates their special interests.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Updated version of "The Story of Little Black Sambo," in which the characters have been given authentic Indian names in keeping with the setting, telling of Little Babaji who loses his fine new clothes to a quartet of tigers, but gets them back when the tigers get into a fight over which of them is the grandest.
10) Sugar in milk
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins.
11) Homeless bird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
12) Rikki-tikki-tavi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
Author
Series
Sona Sharma volume 1
Pub. Date
2021, c2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sona Sharma's house is full of people who joke often and argue sometimes. Relatives come unannounced, the phone rings frequently and friends drop in all the time. Then one day Amma tells Sona she is going to have a baby. Is that good? Sona isn't sure -- she has always enjoyed being an only child -- and straight away she has a word with her best friend, Elephant. When Sona learns that there will be a baby naming ceremony, she is determined to find...
14) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
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.
15) Tiger's voyage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Formats
Description
After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
16) The Jungle Book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Appears on list
Description
Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...
17) Holi hai!
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Gauri is excited to splash colors on everyone for Holi. But when she doesn't get her favorite color, Gauri gets mad. Will she find a way to overcome her anger and join in the festivities?
18) Monsoon summer
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Spring is here, and it's almost time for Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors. Siblings Mintoo and Chintoo are busy gathering flowers to make into colorful powders to toss during the festival. And when at last the big day comes, they gather with their friends, family, and neighbors for a vibrant celebration of fresh starts, friendship, forgiveness, and, of course, fun!