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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"A family of wolves takes a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him?"--P. [4] of cover.
2) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
3) Island's end
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1954], c1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Gloria Whelan's National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the breathtaking story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled; her life has been sold for a dowry. In prose both graceful and unflinching, this powerful novel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
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Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
8) Blue jasmine
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
11) Tiger's destiny
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
12) Tiger boy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
A tiger cub has escaped from a reserve in the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, and Neel, a poor boy from the islands, is determined to find her in order to save her from being captured and sold on the black market by Mr. Gupta and his men.
13) Sen lin wang zi
Author
Series
Ai cang ben volume 80
Publisher
Zhi ji zong jing xiao
Pub. Date
2008
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
17) Tiger's quest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kelsey returns home to Oregon, where Mr. Kadam has enrolled her in college, but danger sends her back to India to begin another quest, this time with Kishan, to try to break the curse that forces Kisham and his brother Ren to live as tigers.
18) Tiger's curse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
20) Janguru bukku
Author
Series
Iwanami shōnen bunko volume 225
Publisher
Iwanamishoten
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
日本語
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