Hit for a Six

Rupa Publications, 2017

Thirteen-year-old Laila loves cricket, but when her favourite cricketer is in the dock for match-fixing, she wonders if she can love the game again. But then, her school is going to host the town’s first girls’ cricket club. Can Laila forget her hero’s betrayal? Hit for a Six is not just a story about cricket. There is a delicious mystery woven around it as well.

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A Helping Hand

Pratham Books, 2017

There's a new girl in class and our teacher has asked me to be her friend and show her around. But I'm not sure I want to—she's... not like the rest of us! A fascinating tale of friendship and fitting in, which tells its story through letters.

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Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean

Co-edited by Kirsty Murray, Payal Dhar and Anita Roy
Young Zubaan, 2014; Allen & Unwin, 2015; Margaret K. McElderry, 2017

Be transported into dystopian cities and alternate universes. Hang out with unicorns, cyborgs and pixies. Learn how to waltz in outer space. Be amazed and beguiled by a fairy tale with an unexpected twist, a futuristic take on a TV cooking show, and a playscript with tentacles.

In other words, get ready for a wild ride!

This collection of sci-fi and fantasy writing, including six graphic stories, showcases twenty of the most exciting writers and artists from India and Australia, in an all-female, all-star line-up!

Contributors include:
Samhita Arni, Kuzhali Manickavel, Manjula Padmanabhan, Vandana Singh, Payal Dhar, Anita Roy, Annie Zaidi, Penni Russon, Kate Constable, Isobelle Carmody, Justine Larbalestier, Alyssa Brugman, Kirsty Murray, Margo Lanagan, Priya Kuriyan, Prabha Mallya, Amruta Pail, Lily Mae Martin, Nicki Greenberg and Mandy Ord.

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Slightly Burnt

Bloomsbury, 2014

Sahil has been Komal's very best friend since, well, for ever. Which is why she doesn't want to hear his confession. But there is not much she can do to stop him from saying what he has to say. When her brother gets unwittingly tangled in the whole mess that ensues, Komal finds that she is out of her depth and in desperate need of help.

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There's a Ghost in My PC

Scholastic, 2011

Twelve-year-old Madhu's laptop houses a ghost. She keeps this secret, after all, who would believe her if she told them? But her younger sister, Kumuda, knows something fishy is afoot. The ten-year-old fancies herself as a bit of an investigator which lands her in a lot of trouble. This book tells the funny and interesting story of these two girls and their family and friends.

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Satin: A Stitch in Time

HarperCollins, 2010

Kuzerazi: a land where magic is forbidden, a place which carefully guards its secrets. It is this hostile land that holds the key to the artefacts and writings that baffle Marik Yavi, a talented word mage from Koda. When Yavi's attempts to decipher his grandfather's legacy throw up shocking possibilities, he decides that the mystery must be solved. Accompanying him on his mission are his sister Fahe, heir to the Marik titles and fortune, and Keas, a young Kuzerazan runaway. Their destination: the remote estate of Fezar—a mysterious, surreal world, where the edges of reality are blurred. But the trio must tread carefully, for mages are despised and distrusted in Kuzerazi, and danger stalks them everywhere. Satin: A Stitch in Time is set in a world where the lines between magic and technology are often hard to see, and age-old conflicts simmer.

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The Timeless Land (Shadow in Eternity 3)

Young Zubaan, 2009

As the youngest Halvard of the Sands of Time, Maya is torn between loyalty to her family and to her Watcher, and dogged by a prophecy that predicts her to be the cause of the destruction of time. A child caught in a world of grown-ups, Maya finds herself in the middle of a Warrior conspiracy to see the Ai'diyar Prophecy to its conclusion. As she and her friends stumble into the Timeless Land, she is faced with a choice that could have a devastating impact on reality as we know of it. In this third and final book of the Shadow in Eternity series, Maya finally comes face to face with the Prophecy. The question is, will it be an end or a beginning?

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The Key of Chaos (Shadow in Eternity 2)

Young Zubaan, 2008

Meet Maya Subramaniam: thirteen years old, schoolgirl by day, Preferred by night. Throw in a pair of disapproving parents intent on stopping her forays into an alternate world, a two-metre-tall Watcher who can sense her state of mind, and a best friend who could technically be her worst enemy. The last thing Maya needs is an unpleasant involvement with an ancient conspiracy. But being in possession of a valuable artefact belonging to the renegade Warriors of the Shadow, she has little choice in the matter. The question is, should she believe a two-thousand-year-old jumble of calculations, or follow her instincts and trust her Watcher's logic? As events spiral towards a grim climax, Maya, Lev and their Watchers are caught in a deadly race. Will they win? And at what cost?

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A Shadow in Eternity

Young Zubaan/Puffin, 2006

Maya Subramaniam seems like an ordinary twelve-year-old. But she isn't. For Maya knows the truth about time. Every night she travels to an alternate world known as Eternity, where she trains so she might become a Defender of the Light and keep time ticking. Under the watchful eyes of the freakishly tall, enigmatic Noah, Maya has no problems keeping up her double life. Till, that is, she and her friend Lev unwittingly stumble upon an ancient conspiracy. Maya sets out on an extraordinary adventure. Along the way, she discovers powers she never knew she had, perils she never wanted to face, and the true meaning of friendship.

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