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Catching Up: MG and YA Books

September 19, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

So many wonderful, wonderful books and so little time! Here are a few middle-grade and young adult books I read in the last couple of months. Gorilla Dawn I know a little about gorillas being endangered because I began to read up bits and pieces about it when I saw articles linking the fate of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, Apple and Rain, Bikram Ghosh, Gill Lewis, Gorilla Dawn, Julia Golding, Katarina Genar, Martin Widmark, Pam Munoz Ryan, reading, review, Sally Nicholls, Sarah Crossan, Shadow Girl, The Sherlock Holmes Connection, Wolf Cry

Seven Fictional Teachers I Love

September 5, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s Teachers’ Day – the day when every teacher goes home with a mountain of cards. As a writer and teacher, how can I not celebrate all the fictional teachers I love? When I started writing this post, I thought, first, of all the teachers I’ve created in my stories. The Story-Catcher has very few; offhand, […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Apple and Rain, Dara Palmer's Major Drama, Dear Mrs. Naidu, Emily of New Moon, Emma Shevah, Enid Blyton, harry potter, J K Rowling, L M Montgomery, Malory Towers, Mathangi Subramanian, Matilda, Roald Dahl, Sarah Crossan