This book is titled Beautiful Leela and is about a girl named Leela, who is around 12–13 years old. Leela feels insecure about her skin colour and is afraid to be seen. She doesn’t talk to many of her classmates and mostly keeps to herself except when she is with Aisha and Keshav, her two best friends.
This book is a collection of ten heart-touching stories exploring the love-hate relationship a.k.a. bonding between siblings. The stories in this book span from mythology to modern era of medical advancements and evolving social awareness.
It is a collection of real, half-legendary, and totally legendary moments of kindness, none of them connected by plot, just by theme.
The story begins when three children who discover a strange clue during a break‑in at the Asiatic Society Library in Mumbai. This clue leads them into a thrilling adventure across the city. They uncover secrets hidden for thousands of years, solve riddles, and learn how the sapphire has shaped history.
Eleven-year-old Avisha reads a book from her summer reading list and takes an immediate dislike to the motivations and actions of its protagonist. She decides to write to the author directly, to make her case, to say: you are wrong.
The story opens by introducing the residents of Banian Tree Avenue, a quaint and quiet neighbourhood in Chennai, lined with leafy trees on both sides. When Kannalmozhi and her mother move in, they become the first to set up a fruit stall on the street. Soon, other vendors follow.
