Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali.Name of the Book- Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি)
Author - Rabindranath Tagore
Award - Nobel Prize
Year - 1913
About the Book- is a collection of poems by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published on August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali.
Luv Mehta
Class V A
Name of the Book- Midnight's Children
Author - Salman Rushdie
Award - Man Booker Prize
Year - 1981
About the Book - Midnight's Children deals with India's transition from British
colonialism to independenceand the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events as with historical fiction.
Rachit
Class V A
Name of the Book- The Round House
Award - National Award for Fiction
Year - 2012
About the Book - The Round House is a political novel
Madhav Kwatra
Class V A
Name of the Book- The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
Author - M. T. Anderson
Award - National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Year - 2006
About the Book - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party is an American historical novel for young adults.
Ragav Kwatra
Class V A
Title of the book: The God of Small Things
Author: Arundhati Roy
Year of prize: 1997
Name of prize: ManBooker Prize
About the Book: It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are
destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives.
Parth Suri
Class V B
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Aditya Sarit
Class V C
Name of the Book- Redshirts
Author - John Scalzi
Award - Hogo Award for Best Novel
Prize - 2013
About the Book - Redshirts is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books in June 2012. The audiobook of the novel is narrated by Wil Wheaton.
Ishan Sinha
Class V B
Name of the Book- Locomotive
Author - Brian Floca
Award - The Radoiph Caldecott Medal
Year - 2014
About the Book - Locomative is a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America's early rail roads from the creator of the Moonshot.
Anushka Prakash
Class V B
Name of the Book- The Luminaries
Author - Eleanor Catton
Award - Man Booker Prize
Year - 2013
About the Book - From the acclaimed author of The Rehearsal comes a novel about a young woman on trial for murder in nineteenth-century New Zealand.
Srishti Aggarwal
Class V B
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Kritika
Class V C
Name of the Book- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Author - George Packer
Award - National Book Award
Year - 2013
About the Book - This is a Historical Book.
Saharsh
Class V C
Name of the Book- The Flick
Author - Annie Baker
Award - Pultizer Prize
Year - 2014
About the Book - "Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking. . . . The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater.
Kritika
Class V C
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Vanshika Srivastava
Class V C
Name of the Book - Renato the Painter
Author - Eugene Mirabelli
Award - Independent Publisher Book Award for Fiction
Year - 2013
About the Book - Renato Stillamare may be the best painter of his generation at least, he doesn t know anyone better but his canvasses aren t in demand, and haven t been since his last show at a Newbury Street gallery twenty-five years ago. Now 70, and retired from teaching at Copley College of Art, Renato s retreated to his Boston studio where he is defiantly painting, painting, painting, determined to be rediscovered.
Aakriti Berry
Class V C
Name of the Book- Midwinter Blood
Author - Marcus Sedgwick
Award - Michael L. Printz Award
Year -2014
About the Book - Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined?this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice.
Himanshi Kaushal
Class V C
Name of The Book- May We Be Forgiven
Author - A.M. Homes
Award - Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Year - 2013
About the Book - It is a darkly comic novel by twenty first century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation.
Ayush Bhatia
Class V C
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of the Book
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Author
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Award
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Year
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Smile
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Raina Telgemeir
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Young Reader's Choice Award
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2013
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The Luminaries
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Eleanor Catton
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Man Booker Prize
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2013
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Asmitaa Dimri
Class V-D
Name of the Book- The Inheritance of Loss
Author - Kiran Dasai
Award - Man Booker Prize
Year - 2006
About the Book - The book follows the journey of Biju, an illegal immigrant in the US who is trying to make a new life, and Sai an Anglicised Indian girl living with her grandfather in India.
Aditya Sarit
Class V C
Name of the Book- Atonement
Author -Ian McEwan
Award -National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Year - 2002
About the Book -On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.
Aditya Sarit
Class V C
Name of the Book- Atonement
Award -National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Year - 2002
About the Book -On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.
Tanishiq Sethi
Class V D
Class V D
Name of the Book- Life of Pi
Author- Yann Martel
Award- Booker Prize
Year - 2002
About the Book- Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, had a fervent love of stories and practices not only within his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks--and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do?
Kashmi Hora
Class V D
Name of the Book- The White Tiger
Author - Arvind Adiga
Award - Man Booker Prize
Year -2008
About The Book - The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Dhruv Gupta
Class V D
Name of the Book - The moon and the sun
Author - Vonda N. Mclntyre
Year - 1998
Award - Nebula prize for best novel
About the Book - In this breathtaking tale-- part adventure story, part legend, and part Gothic novel-- what Publishers Weekly calls "a marvelous alternative history fable".
Ishika Saxena
Class V E
Class V E
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Vanshika Srivastava
Class V C
Name of the Book- The Invisible Man
Author - Ralph Ellison
Award -National Book award for Fiction
Year - 1953
About the Book - The Invisible Man is the story of a weird scientist who s forced in the hell he created for himself through his experiments.
Kashmi Hora
Class V D
Name of the Book- The White Tiger
Author - Arvind Adiga
Award - Man Booker Prize
Year -2008
About The Book - The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Dhruv Gupta
Class V D
Name of the Book - The moon and the sun
Author - Vonda N. Mclntyre
Year - 1998
Award - Nebula prize for best novel
About the Book - In this breathtaking tale-- part adventure story, part legend, and part Gothic novel-- what Publishers Weekly calls "a marvelous alternative history fable".
Ishika Saxena
Class V E
Name of the Book - The Goldfish
Author - Donna Tartt
Award - Pulitzer Prize
Year - 2014
About the Book - Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that soon draws Theo into the art underworld.
Dakshav YadavClass V E
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Vanshika Srivastava
Class V C
Name of the Book- The Invisible Man
Author - Ralph Ellison
Award -National Book award for Fiction
Year - 1953
About the Book - The Invisible Man is the story of a weird scientist who s forced in the hell he created for himself through his experiments.
Manya Singh
Class V E
Name of the Book- Smile
Author - Raina Telgemeir
Award - Young Reader's Choice Award
Year - 2013
About the Book - It is a story about a girl who has injuring her two front teeth frustrating journey, of again braces surgery and it is a specially story based on dental drama.
Vidhi Jain
Class V E
Vidhi Jain
Class V E
