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Top Nine Middle Grade Books I Read in 2020

January 3, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I love middle grade reads, so this is my longest list this year. In no particular order, here are the books to which I gave a five-star rating in 2020. This is a book for keeps. More often than not, in India, books that address homosexuality are categorised as young adult or adult books, but […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Across the Line, All of Me, Eva Ibbotson, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Kate Darnton, Katherine Rundell, Listen to the Moon, Lois Lowry, Meg Wolitzer, Michael Morpurgo, middle-grade, Nayanika Mahtani, Number the Stars, Out of My Mind, Sharon M Draper, The Good Thieves, The Misfits, The Star of Kazan, To Night Owl from Dogfish, Venita Coelho

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 to the teacher. Friendship bands would get confiscated, much to our indignation. They came under the category of ‘ornaments’, which were prohibited. Some girls made […]

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

The Misfits

June 26, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Book cover Text: You find friends in the most unexpected places The Misfits Kate Darnton Image: Illustration of the lower half of two schoolgirls in uniform . One child's legs are white and her uniform and socks are neat. The other is brown her uniform is mended, her socks are crooked.

The story of how I got my hands on The Misfits is a tale in itself. I ordered it during the Zubaan Women’s Day sale, and it was dispatched about a week later. With the lockdown and then Nisarga, it never came. There was no way to track it and quite honestly, I didn’t try […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Kate Darnton, middle-grade, reading, review, The Misfits