FANTASY Inkheart Ice Shock Numbers Shiver Igraine the Brave Children of the Lamp: The Akhenatan Adventure

Children of the Lamp: The Blue Djinn of Babylon Children of the Lamp: The Cobra King of Kathmandu Children of the Lamp: The Day of Djinn Warriors Children of the Lamp: The Eye of the Forest The Cry of the Icemark Tunnels The Girl with the Broken Wing Mortal Engines Falling Here Lies Arthur The Book Of Time The Secrets of Droon: The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet Guardians of GaHoole: The Golden Tree A Curse Dark as Gold The Key to Rondo Terrror on the Titanic GRAPHIC NOVEL Bone Book 1: Out from Boneville Bone Book 2: The Great Cow Race Bone Book 3: The Dragonslayer Bone Book 4: Eyes of the Storm Bone Book 5: Rock Jaw Bone Book 6: Old Mans Cave Bone Book 7: Ghost Circles Bone Book 8: Treasure Hunters Bone Book 9: Crown of Horns The Arrival The Invention of Hugo Cabret FICTION Northern Lights: The Golden Compass Northern Lights: The Subtle Knife Northern Lights: The Amber Spyglass

To celebrate our nineteeth anniversary, Scholastic is highlighting ninety of the greatest books we have published around the world. These include award winning picture books, great non-fiction, stunning young adult novels and much more. Throughout 2011, we will be running online activities focusing on these books, giving children a chance to participate in quizzes, review books and interview authors. This campaign underscores the importance of reading to better prepare children who will need strong literacy skills to survive and succeed in the 21st century. Scholastic is asking EVERYONEour partners, publishers, educators, business leaders, nonprofits, parents, caregivers and studentsto work together to bring reading and a deeper understanding to all children around the globe.
Ways to Live Forever Flyaway At Least a Fish Main Street: Welcome to Camden Falls Geronimo Stilton: The Karate Mouse Urgum The Axe Man Smile The Meanwhile Adventures Wilderness The Enemy of my Enemy (Game book) The Grasshoppers Run NON-FICTION 103 Scientific Principles, Ideas, Theories and Stuff 103 Journeys, Voyages, Trips and Stuff Amazing India Clikits: Guide to Life Style-o-wot Horrible Histories Series Horrible Science Series Murderous Maths Series Dead Famous Series PICTURE BOOKS Song of the Bookworm Lighthouse Pirate Girl The Tree with a Travelling Heart Food for Thought Adventures of Riley: Tigers in Terai Madeline Tiddler No David Too Many Toys Tabby McTat Fly High. Fly Guy! The Dog who Loved Red POETRY Funny Poems Magic Poems School Poems The Fried Frog and other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems HORROR/ MYSTERY Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House Goosebumps Horrorland: The Scream of the Haunted Mask 666 The Number of the Beast The 39 Clues Series Chasing Vermeer TRADITIONAL TALES The Wit of Tenali Raman The Wisdom of Mulla Nasruddin The Moustache Maharishi and Other Unlikely Stories Mahabharata SCIENCE FICTION/ YOUNG ADULT The Hunger Games Catching Fire Mockingjay Stolen Confessions of a Listmaniac OTHERS Captain Underpants Series (Comic) Five Plays for Children (Play) Mommy (Pop-up book)

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With its fresh and funky design and delightful illustrations, the Scholastic India Yearbook 2011 is indispensable for quizzes, projects or just to know all about the world! Besides comprehensive sections with facts on the states of India and the countries of the world, and updates on current events, people in the news, environment news and more, the book also includes essays by prominent persons who are authorities in their fields, such as author Samit Basu on literature; professor Shobhit Mahajan on science; journalist Siddhartha Sarma on current national and international events; sports journalist Anand Ramachandran on sports; and Swapan Seth, an art collector on art, among several others.

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The Indus Investigators: Mohenjodaro Mystery

978-81-8477-657-7 | 156 pp | b/w | ` 150

Ilona Aronovsky studied history at Edinburgh University, taught in London schools, and is an author of publications about the Indus Civilisation and other history topics. She met the Indus characters in this story while writing teaching materials for primary schools. She is constantly fascinated by the achievements of this great civilisation and the mysteries that archaeologists are still trying to solve.

On a school trip to Mohenjodaro, two children, Mina and Yasin, get caught up in a time warp where they meet not only the archaeologists who discovered the worlds most ancient civilisation, but also interact with the artefacts which come alive to show them how daily life was lived many thousands of years ago. As they try to find the answers to the questions their teacher has set them, they also catch glimpses of a deeper mystery: what caused the end of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Packed with immense and vivid details, this book is not only an exciting read about a quest to unearth a forgotten story, but is also deeply informative about the Indus civilisation.

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book! I got very interested in the Indus Civilisation around 1995, after I was first asked to write materials for teachers of children aged 9-11. As there is a lot that we dont know about it, I stayed curious.

Q Is there any particular reason why you chose to write a novel on the Indus Valley Civilisation? A Ive been having imaginary chats with the characters in the book a long time before writing the

have been like when they were children! Mina and Yasin remind me of good times I had playing with friends when I was a child.

Q Are Mina and Yasin based on children you know or are they kids that you imagined up? A They are like several children I know from when I was a teacher, and what I imagine some grown up friends might

Q The time travel in this book is strictly not time travel, more like viewing options of what could have happened in the Indus Civilisation. I found that very interesting. Why and how did you decide to use this technique? A Are you sure? One of the odd things about time travel is that its not normal time which travels in straight lines, its quite bendy, and can easily fool us . We cannot always know when we are really time travelling, or we just think we are, which could be happening in this story, at least some of the time. The One-Horn Beast, Plenty, Cart Man, the Bull and the Toddlers, and all the ancient characters the children meet gave me the idea about how to time travel without ever knowing when we get there. Q Would you say this is a reference book or a novel? I think it works as both so I am not sure how this should be categorized in a library. A I want the readers to enjoy the story and the funny things and adventures that happen to the children, so this is definitely a novel. If they do, and also get interested in the Indus Civilisation, and finding out about it, so much the better. Im please you think it works as both, as I always spend a lot of time checking out the research and information, so no reason why your library couldnt have a copy in both sections!
make, experiment with or create. That wouldnt really be a sequel, however, if I did, the One-Horn Beast could certainly take Mina and Yasin to visit Indus cities on the coast, and then sail west on an expedition to Ancient Mesopotamia.
Interview by Diksha Narang, Class XI, G. D. Goenka School, Delhi

Q If you were to write a sequel to this book what would that book be about? A Two ideas - one would be a fun, activity and investigation book about the Indus Civilisation, with lots of things to

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Look out for recommendations from a new librarian every month!

Handas Surprise These are some of the beautiful story books written in easy and simple language to make small children familiar with various things around them. These must be kept in every classroom library from classes Nursery-2nd, so that the children can have access to them easily.

What Mommies Do Best Beautifully coloured pictures take children on a journey to an imaginary world. These books also give them insight to the life and cultures of different countries.

The Amazing Days Of Abby Hayes Reading such books enables children to relate to their own incidents in daily school life. It also gives them insight to think about various aspects of life and analyze them to realize what appears on the surface is not always true. These kind of books also help to improve their conversational skills.

Instant Lessons For Senior Maths It is a very useful series in science subjects for classes 6-8. At this level they are introduced to various new concepts in Maths, Physics and Chemistry and these concepts are explained in a very simple manner which makes these subjects interesting for the students. In addition there are lots of exercises for practice.

Ghar Ka Naam Ek Saal This book written by Gulzar, is a kind of book that makes learning fun for children and creates interest in our national language.

Bring the warm Christmassy feel home with these Santa-themed books (Noisy Christmas, Father Christmas). The beautiful illustrations, classic tunes and bed time stories are just right for your preschooler and early school-goer. Child Magazine, December 2010.

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It takes a while before you get hooked onto this dark fairytale (Reckless). But once you do theres no turning back DNA YA, December 26, 2010.

Banana Republic with its mission codename: Bring back Bananas, is a hilarious read. Five baboons escape from the agency to get the mystical magic ink which would give them immense power. The Hindu, Chennai, November 23, 2010.

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The Curse of the Broken Step
I enjoyed reading The Curse of the Broken Step because the children who solve the mystery are normal kids like me and my friends and they talk the way we do and enjoy the same things. The mystery they get caught in is very exciting with visits to old ruins where they run into a bunch of mysterious sadhus, and it gets quite scary with Dhruvs dad being involved in the stolen painting business too, especially after the murder in Purana Qila. But let me not spoil the mystery for you. The ending is fast paced and holds a few surprises. Gayathri Sankar, Class VI, Mothers International School, Delhi

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Spreading joy at the Delhi Book Fair

Scholastic India had its share of joy participating in the 15th Delhi Book Fair 2011, which took place at Pragati Maidan. The Fair started on Decemeber 25th and concluded on January 2nd 2011. The Scholastic India Stall was crowded with parents, students and young adults, who were eagerly looking for their favourite Scholastic books. The stall looked vibrant and the Scholastic team was ready to help the customers to make the right choices. Children who purchased books were given free gifts. New books along with the popular Scholastic series like Clifford, Geronimo Stilton, Goosebumps were featured at the fair. The Delhi Book Fair was a huge crowd puller this year. We attracted 40,000 visitors today, mostly from Delhi and the National Capital Region and expect the same number of

visitors on Sunday, said India Trade Promotion Organisation Senior General Manager Safdar Khan. The last Delhi Book Fair attracted over three lakh visitors from India and overseas. The Delhi Book Fair has become a common platform for the publishers, authors, distributers and book lovers to know and explore the world of publishing.

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for that matter Gogolgrowing up in an Indian family in suburban America in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiriall have some kind of energy that makes the reader discover the innate capacity to transform and go ahead in life. B. N. Sarkar Principal Heritage School Jammu However, in the midst of these when one suddenly comes across a book Who Will Cry When You Die? by Robin Sharma, he descends to a different kind of reality and the images of the central characters get transformed and blend into the readers selfintimidating his mortal intelligence to seek greater meaning of life in order to go ahead better and wiser! The reader seems tormented and invariably seeks solace in a thought provoking book like The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. He strives to grab the essence of having a resourceful mind and this he discovers lies in change of mental attitude. It is a fine piece of work to let one win confidence in ones self and to make one realize that life in spite of every oddity moves on.

Critically, all these works in terms of style, content and in their diverse portrayal of slices of action are different and bear individual aesthetic brilliance. Shobhaa De shows some kind of obsession to table our countrys historical failings; Coelho uses lot of his energy on Athena; Jhumpa Lahiri takes pain in depicting issues between two worlds; Robin Sharma some times seems to take the reader for granted while Vincent Peale naturally feels too confident to win the head and heart of his reader. However, it would be an error to be judgmental on any one of them. These books have wise designs to attract a readers attention time and again and make one feel always the human accountability to be in a modern world. Reading them has been quite an enriching experience.

FIVE BOOKS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED ME

Of late, while reading some of the books (mentioned herewith), I have discovered a typical tendency in authors to awaken the reader while they endeavour a critical search for identity with the help of their central characters. Athena of Paulo Coelhos The Witch of Portobello, born in Romania and raised in Beirut; Bangladeshi male model in Bangalore with hope in his eyes and hunger in his belly who fascinates Shobhaa De in her novel Superstar IndiaFrom Incredible to Unstoppable and