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Top Ten: Young Adult Books

January 11, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Being a young adult is to inhabit a complex and confusing world. When books address this phase of life beautifully, they can be breathtaking. Here are my top ten YA […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Hell and High Water, No. 9 on the Shade Card, One, Pig Heart Boy, Running Girl, Set in Stone, Stargirl, The Lies We Tell, Top Ten, Touching Spirit Bear, Wolf Cry, Young Adult

Top Ten: Middle-Grade Books

January 10, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Narrowing down to my top ten middle-grade books is always the hardest of all! Some of these books are younger than others, as always, because age ranges are hard to […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Gorilla Dawn, Karma Fights a Monster, middle-grade, Mockingbird, The Diamond of Drury Lane, The Explorer, The Extraordinary Colours of Auden Dare, The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day, The Mighty Miss Malone, The One and Only Ivan, The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop, Top Ten

Top Ten: Chapter Books

January 9, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Calling all the books that I’ve listed here ‘chapter books’ is perhaps unfair. Some are quite a bit longer than others. I’m uncomfortable defining books on the basis of age […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: A Tigress Called Machhli, Amra and the Witch, Chapter Books, Making Millions, Me and Mister P, Moin and the Monster, Radhika Takes the Plunge, The 13-Storey Treehouse, The Little Rainmaker, The Mumbelievable Challenge, Top Ten, Wildwitch Wildfire