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Dungeon Tales II

September 6, 2024 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We’re going to reread Dungeon Tales II by Venita Coelho at my book club! And thanks to the Neev Literature Festival, I have an autographed copy! Short stories work well with […]

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Dungeon Tales

March 6, 2023 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We read Dungeon Tales II in September last year and loved it. In fact, it was everyone’s favourite read from the August-September selection, even though it competed with Paati Vs UNCLE and Frindle. So how […]

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Dungeon Tales II

April 11, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Munni finds an old book in her Mamaji’s shop. What does it say? ungeon ales? What could that possibly be? There’s only one way to find out – Munni must […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Dungeon Tales II, early middle grade, reading, review, Short Stories, Venita Coelho

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. […]

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

All of Me

May 26, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Book cover Text: All of Me Venita Coelho Image: Illustration of a boy's face and in his head, black silhouettes of a family, as if on stage

It’s been a while since I wrote a book review, simply because I haven’t been reading much for the last two months. I wrote about that for The Curious Reader […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: All of Me, middle-grade, reading, review, Venita Coelho