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1) Sold
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
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Three tales from Kipling?s ?Jungle Books?. "Mowgli?s Brothers" tells the story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves and under the protection of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, as they face the threat of the tiger, Shere Khan. In "The King?s Ankus", Mowgli is led to a vast treasure in a hidden city by the python, Kaa. He does not realize, however that the allure of the treasure leads men to kill... In "Red Dog", Mowgli and his wolfpack...
3) Tiger boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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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.
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English
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Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Priyanka Champaneri's transcendent, prize-winning debut novel brings us inside India's holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.
As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Banaras on the banks of the Ganges, Pramesh...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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...
10) American betiya
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Rani, a budding photographer, grapples with first love, family boundaries, and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.
11) In Andal's house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Kumar, a young boy living in present-day India, faces bigotry when he goes to visit a classmate from a higher caste family"-
12) Tiger's curse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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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.
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English
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The Second Jungle Book is the sequel to Rudyard Kipling's acclaimed collection of stories about the Indian jungle. These new stories were published a year after the original, and mostly focus on the same characters including Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera. Similar to his first collection of fables, this sequel also contains a poem at the end of every story, showcasing Rudyard's knowledge of the politics of the time, as well as his passion for the Indian...
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.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ajay is a Mumbai railway kid, a newspaper seller, but his great dream is to be a journalist. His dream comes true when he and a gang of friends create their own newspaper, but what is the cost of uncovering the truth?
Author
Series
Ash Mistry chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
680L
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
Boxcar children. Endangered animals volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens head to Ladakh, a territory in northern India, to help save the elusive and critically endangered snow leopard.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
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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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom, who comes from a long line of criminals, travels with his roguish uncle to India to find a family treasure--an antique jewel-encrusted tiger stolen from the sultan's throne hundreds of years ago.
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