Collection: Junior Fiction

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. So when her schoolmates dare her to prove that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, she doesn't think there's any harm in lighting it. Little does Aru know that lighting the lamp has d...

Aru Shah's life is a mess. The Sleeper and his army are heading into the labyrinth to reach the nectar of immortality. The Pandavas have until the next full moon to stop the Sleeper from gaining infinite power and destroying the Otherworld, but they won't be allowed access to the labyrinth withou...

Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. If that weren't bad enough, s...

War between the devas and the demons is imminent, and the Otherworld is on high alert. Aru Shah and her friends are sent on a mission to rescue two targets, one of whom is about to utter a prophecy that cannot reach the ears of villainous the Sleeper. A mystical wish-granting tree might be Aru's ...

Ten-year-old Vivian is determined to win a medal at the Olympic Games one day. Problem is, she hasn't found a sport she's any good at yet. But everyone says if you work hard enough you can achieve anything, right? So when Vivian discovers she has a talent for cross country running, finally, her O...

After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal military regime for more than fifty years, to visit Alessia. When he's invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, Peak can't pass up ...

When Cinder Ashokis mother dies in a freak carriage accident, his father marries again. But the new wife is horrible, and her two sons Rock and Boulder aren't much better! They bully Cinder terribly - all he wants is to be left alone in the library, his favourite place in the world. Rock and Boul...

When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name...

British schoolboy Ash Mistry, the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka and an agent of the goddess of death, faces the evil Lord Savage again after the villain sends his minions to capture Gemma, Ash's unrequited crush.

In this land of ancient temples, incense and snake charmers…Where the monsters and heroes of the past come to life…One slightly geeky boy from our time… IS GOING TO KICK SOME DEMONS BACK TO HELL.Ash Mistry hates India. Which is a problem since his uncle has brought him and his annoying younger si...