Suraj and Radha never know when the colourful ‘Happiness Train’ will chug into their village, offering them a whole new world of fun and enchantment! ‘Trains and tracks are evil,’ says Amma, ‘they carry people away.’ But this train’s musical whistle, the gorgeous pictures on the coaches, and its promise of faraway, exciting lands – all make Suraj eager to leave his humdrum life and set out on adventures. One day, ignoring Radha’s warnings, he secretly boards the train. Soon Suraj realizes that he and the other runaway boys – Murali, Chhotu and Asad – are being carted away on a dangerous mission. With no hope of escaping, they are close to giving up, when help arrives unexpectedly. Is there a mysterious person on board who can rescue them? How is a raja connected with the train? Has Radha forgotten all about Suraj? And does he finally get what he is looking for? Find out in this unusual story about family, friends, and discovering new routes to happiness and home.
ISBN: 9789391028114
Pages: 176
Avg Reading Time: 6 hrs
Age: 11-18
Country of Origin: IN
A Harappan Adventure
- Author Name:
Sunila Gupte
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- Description: 2570 BCE, Bagasra Village, Harappa, India Twelve-year-old Avani is a happy-go-lucky, adventurous Harappan girl, who loves to play with her friends Tavishi, Delshad and Ambar. The wedding of the Village Elder’s daughter Ketika brings fresh excitement into their lives. However, something sinister is afoot, as Avani realizes when she overhears a mysterious conversation between two men. Other incidents, like a bizarre robbery and a fire at the grain storeroom, add to the tension. Do these unconnected events point to a bigger plan? How is the monk from far-off China linked to all this? Will Avani and her friends’ quick thinking unmask this plan, and save the honour of Bagasra village and Harappa?
Ek Chhoti Bansuri
- Author Name:
Devendra Kumar
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- Description: Awating description for this book
Mulla Nasruddin Ke Kisse
- Author Name:
Nirupma
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- Description: Mulla Nasruddin Ke Kisse
The Girl Who Climbed Mountains: Bachendri Pal
- Author Name:
Lavanya Karthik
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- Description: Before Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mt Everest, she was a little girl with dreams as big as the sky.
Ek Chor Ki Chaudah Raatein
- Author Name:
Arun Kamal +1
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- Description: प्रसिद्ध लेखक अरुण कमल ने युवा वयस्कों के लिए एक चोर की कहानी लिखी है। यह चोर बनने की पहली चौदह रातों की उसकी यात्रा है। इन रातों में उसका सामना शिक्षित-अशिक्षित, अमीर-गरीब कई लोगों से होता है। मजबूत उपपाठ के साथ पढ़ने में आसान भाषा में लिखी गई कहानी पढ़ने के लिए आकर्षक बनाती है। अतनु रॉय के चित्र पुस्तक और इसके डिज़ाइन को समृद्ध करते हैं। उनके रंगों का प्रयोग और उनकी रचना उल्लेखनीय है। पाठकों को उनकी कलाकृति रमणीय लगेगी।
The Bird With The Golden Wings
- Author Name:
Smt. Sudha Murty
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- Description: A poor little girl is rewarded with lovely gifts when she feeds a hungry bird all the rice she has. What happens when the girls greedy, nosy neighbour hears the story and tries to get better gifts for herself? Why did the once sweet sea water turn salty? How did the learned teacher forget his lessons only to be aided by the school cook? And how did the king hide his horrible donkey ears from the people of his kingdom? For answers to all this and more, delve right into another fabulous collection of stories by Sudha Murty.
The Diary of a Space Traveller & Other Stories
- Author Name:
Satyajit Ray
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- Description: It all began with the fall of a meteorite and the crater it made. In its centre was a red notebook, sticking out of the ground—the first (or was it really the last?) of Professor Shonku’s diaries. Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, eccentric genius and scientist, disappeared without a trace after he shot off into space in a rocket from his backyard in Giridih, accompanied by his loyal but not-too-intelligent servant Prahlad, his cat Newton, and Bidhushekhar, his robot with an attitude. What has become of the professor? Has he decided to stay on in Mars, his original destination? Or has he found his way to some other planet and is living there with strange companions? His last diary tells an incredible story . . . Other diaries unearthed from his abandoned laboratory reveal stranger and even more exciting adventures involving a ferocious sadhu, a revengeful mummy and a mad scientist in Norway who turns famous men into six-inch statues. Exciting, imaginative and funny, the stories in this collection capture the sheer magic of Ray’s lucid language, elegant style, graphic descriptions and absurd humour. The indomitable Professor Shonku has returned, to win himself over a whole new band of followers!
Sabka Bhala, Apna Bhala
- Author Name:
Urmi Krishna
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- Description: Awating description for this book
Chhoo Lo Aasman
- Author Name:
Rashmi Bansal
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Description:
मेरे पास एक शक्ति है
अपनी दुनिया बदलने की शक्ति अपनी राह चलने की भक्ति अपने पैरों पर खड़े होकर अपने
सपने खुद संजोकर कुछ तो करके दिखाना है। चाहे हो कलम, चाहे फुटबॉल मैं करके दिखाऊंगी
कमाल
यह किताब कोरबा से लेकर कश्मीर तक की साहसी और आत्मविश्वास से भरी महिलाओं को
एक सलाम है। हरेक की जीत में एक बड़ी कहानी छिपी है- बिंदासपन की बड़े बदलाव की।
महिलाएं बढ़ रही हैं,
आसमान की ओर चल पड़ी हैं। रोक सको तो रोक लो !
The Price of Our Silence
- Author Name:
Hanadi Falki
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- Description: Is silence ever the answer? How would you react when you know that one of your best friends is lying to you? Who would you trust? Working on top Hollywood projects in the 3D stereoscopy industry is not as rewarding as zuby thought. Along with mounting work pressure and an arranged marriage to escape from, Ruby is forced to either speak up or accept her fate silently. The hidden truths and half lies from her best friends, Adi and Tanya, only make matters worse. Will Adi owe up to his dark secret? Will Tanya accept the reality finally? With a professional background from 3D stereoscopy industry, hanadi falki has brought to life an engaging account of the lives of these youngsters in the price of our silence as they face to the industry's dark secrets of exploitation, favouritism and company politics.
Rebellion in Ranchi
- Author Name:
Swati Sengupta
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- Description: Ranchi district, 1915 Sibu’s life is changing as the Oraons who live in the forests of Chota Nagpur, are slowly moving to the Tana Bhagat movement, where they begin to protest the injustices that the zamindars and the British Raj perpetrate on the Adivasis. And by stories of German Baba, who will help defeat the British in the Great War and bring freedom to the Oraons and to India. Yet, though the Tana Bhagats follow the path of non-violence, violence is rearing its head in the world around them . . . The Songs of Freedom series explores the lives of children across India during the struggle for independence.
Vidrohini : The Leader
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Rebel Girls
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- Description: असाधारण नेतृत्व की सच्ची कहानियाँ इस किताब में ‘न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स’ की सबसे अधिक बिकने वाली शृंखला ‘Goodnight Stories of Rebel Girls’ के प्रथम तीन संस्करणों से कुछ सबसे प्रिय व्यक्तित्वों का चित्रण है। इसमें स्त्रीवादी संघर्ष, साहस और दूरदर्शिता से जुड़ी 11 नई कहानियों को भी शामिल किया गया है। इस पुस्तक में अमेरिका की उपराष्ट्रपति कमला हैरिस के साथ स्त्री होने की नई ऊँचाइयाँ हैं, तो स्टेसी अब्राम्स के साथ मतदाता पंजीकरण की नई व्यवस्था का सूत्रपात; लेडी गागा के साथ दयालुता के संदेश का विस्तार है, तो एली रइसमैन के साथ ओलंपिक जिम्नास्ट टीम का नया नेतृत्व भी। ‘Rebel Girls Lead’ मिशेल ओबामा से लेकर मलाला यूसुफ़ज़ई तक स्त्री-शक्ति का जश्न मनाती है। इस पुस्तक में इन असाधारण स्त्रियों के चित्र उकेरे हैं, दुनिया भर में मशहूर स्त्री-कलाकारों ने।
Pandvani ki Khushbu
- Author Name:
Mahavir Agarwal
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- Description: Pandvani ki Khushbu
Mera kuchh samaan
- Author Name:
Gulzar
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Description:
बहुत छोटी-छोटी बातें होती हैं—रोटी, तवा, धुआँ, पट्टी, कोहरा या पानी की एक बूँद। लेकिन, उनके बड़ेपन की तरफ़ कोई हमें ले जाता है, तो हम अनायास ही एक ताल से ऊपर उठ जाते हैं, नितान्त निर्मल होते हुए। गुलज़ार की शायरी इसी निर्मलता की तलाश की एक शीश जान पड़ती है। वे बहुत मामूली चीज़ों में बहुत ख़ास तरह से अभिव्यक्त होते हैं। उदासी, ख़ुशी या मिलन-बिछोह अथवा बचपन...। लगभग सभी नितान्त निजी इन स्पर्शों को वे शब्दों के ज़रिए मन से मन में स्थानान्तरित करने की क्षमता रखते हैं।
एक विशेष प्रकार की सूमनियत के बावजूद ये विराग में जाकर अपना उत्कर्ष पाते हैं। इसलिए उदास भी होते हैं तो अगरबत्ती की तरह ताकि जलें तो भी एक ख़ुशबू दे सकें औरों के लिए।
गुलज़ार की यह सारी मौलिकता और अपनापन इसलिए भी और-और महत्त्वपूर्ण जान पड़ती है क्योंकि वे अपनी संवेदनशीलता और शब्द फ़िल्मों में लेकर आए हैं।
बेशुमार दौलत और शोहरत की व्यावसायिक चकाचौंध में जहाँ लोकप्रियता का अपना पैमाना है, वहाँ साहित्य की संवेदनात्मक, मार्मिक तथा मानव हृदय से जुड़े हर्ष-विषाद की जैसी काव्यात्मक अभिव्यक्ति गुलज़ार के हाथों हुई, वह अपने आप में एक अद्वितीयता का प्रतीक बन गई है।
Classic Satyajit Ray
- Author Name:
Satyajit Ray
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- Description: Strange things happen all the time—doors creak open, shadows shift when no one’s looking and some places never quite forget their past. Enter the world of mystery, magic and macabre with master storyteller Satyajit Ray as he weaves the finest supernatural tales. Featuring haunted houses, curious doppelgangers, sinister shape-shifters and the lingering echoes of a forgotten past, these hauntingly beautiful stories are presented for the first time to a new generation of readers in this collectable edition, featuring Ray’s original artworks. Come, venture into the realms where the boundaries blur!
Nalluram
- Author Name:
Prem Janmejaya
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- Description: Awating description for this book
Totaram
- Author Name:
Shri Krishna
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- Description: Awating description for this book
Vidyapati
- Author Name:
Ravishankar
- Book Type:
- Description: Vidyapati (Children Book)
The Life and Times of Pratapa Mudaliar
- Author Name:
Meenakshi Tygarajan
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- Description: Katha presents the first Tamil novel, originally published more than 125 year ago. “The book has … rare merits and its popularity has been so great that the first edition ran out in a few months.” — The Hindu
Pashu -Palan
- Author Name:
Hardeep Singh
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- Description: Awating description for this book
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