Young Adults-Non-Fiction
Edited by Deepa Agarwal
Ajeet Bajaj’s narrative of rafting down the Alsek River in snow-bound Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Plateau was another edge-of the-seat thriller, with icebergs, rapids and grizzly bears! Apparently, there are signboards on that route warning adventurers how from that point onward, they ‘are part of the food chain’!
By Gitanjali Rao
I was a bit skeptical of the book at the outset, wondering how a book could do justice in guiding someone in the complex field of STEM or even the process of being an innovator in, say, five steps and was wary about the possibility of oversimplification. Some of the claims did raise my brows—like trying to teach ‘how to think creatively’
By Vipul Rastogi
The section on career and finance deals with examinations, career choices and the question of earning money. This section is a good read for parents too, as they will find important tips and methods for handling their child during examination pressure tests.
By various authors
These fairy tales shall interact with the readers where an iconic character like Snow White can be hearing impaired and communicates through sign language; story reading can in itself be re-invented to make it more inclusive for all hearing-impaired children. Shabdo, the trusted hearing aid, magnifies sounds and enables hearing through varying frequencies and at times the disturbing whistles.