Princess Kundavai is the daughter of a mighty Chola king who grows up along the banks of the holy river Kaveri. As she learns to swim in the river, she also learns to navigate the choppy waters of the power games between the feuding kings.
Category: Teen Books
Though this book is technically a series of eleven essays, wholeheartedly written to show you the reality of being a woman, it is also strangely immersive in its raw honesty. It makes you stare down the thoughts that go unsaid, though the view of a young girl raised in a small, Indian town.
This book is the second in the series of Nico Di Angelo. A group of monsters, who preferred to be called mythics, had arrived at the Roman camp. Nico and Will’s expertise made them the perfect people to decide whether they were evil or not.
Set in the quaint heritage city of Mysore and loosely based on true events, the story traces the journey of Rukmini aunty, an unassuming elderly lady – Rukmini, who is spurred into creating an action group to preserve RK Narayan’s heritage house in Mysore.
Himanjali Shankar’s Game On is a blend of science fiction and horror that feels both playful and unsettling. The story follows siblings Sammy and Simmy, who set out to fetch a glass of water but instead, they find their house glitching into a surreal game.
Uncoded traces India’s transformation from a newly independent nation in 1947—struggling with poverty, low literacy, and scarce resources—to striving and becoming the “Aatma Nirbhar Bharat” it is today.
