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Varsha Seshan

Crenshaw

November 5, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I read Crenshaw over two years ago. In fact, it was one of my top reads of 2020, and it’s a story that has stayed with me since then, a story I […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: book club, bookish activities, books for ages nine and ten, Crenshaw, Katherine Applegate, online reading programme, reading, review

Top Five Chapter Books I Read in 2020

January 1, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

At the beginning of each year, I make a list of books I read and loved in the previous year, and I always begin with the same disclaimer – these […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Asha Nehemiah, Crenshaw, Katherine Applegate, Manjula Padmanabhan, Manya Learns to Roar, Shrinking Vanita, Shruthi Rao, Susie Will Not Speak, Trouble with Magic

5 Times Fictional Friendship Won My Heart

August 2, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

When I was at school, Friendship Day was associated with all kinds of secrecy. We would hide writing boards under our desks, and make friendship bands while pretending to listen […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Crenshaw, friends, friendship, Friendship Day, Making Millions, Me and Mister P, The Boy at the Back of the Class, The Misfits

Crenshaw

June 12, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Book cover Text: Katherine Applegate Crenshaw From the Newbery Medal-Winning author of The One and Only Ivan Image: Illustration of a boy and a giant cat sitting on a bench looking away from us into the purple woods

Look at that gorgeous cover. It invited me in with all its charm, its wonder, its mystery. And the book was just as heart-warming. Jackson likes facts. He’s the kid […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Chapter Book, Crenshaw, Katherine Applegate, reading, review