Rohan found the pencil under his examination desk. It looked ordinary except for two words printed along its side: NOT YET. He
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A Story from an Indian School Library There was one book in our school library that always sat beside the window. Its cover was blue, its corners were bent, and its title had almost faded away. It did not have
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Rohan found the pencil under his examination desk. It looked ordinary except for two words printed along its side: NOT YET. He used it during maths. When he wrote 42, the pencil
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Every book in Mr Sen’s second-hand shop had a final page missing. Not torn. Not damaged. Blank. Customers complained. Mr Sen only smiled. “Finish it yourself.” Most people thought it was a
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The library book was seventy-three years overdue. Mira knew because the return slip was still inside. DUE: 14 JULY 1953 She found it while clearing her grandmother’s cupboard. The book itself was
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Harry Potter and Percy Jackson have something frustratingly similar happen to them. One day, they discover that the world they thought they understood is only a small part of the truth. Harry
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I was lost for exactly seven minutes. I know because my father checked his watch approximately fourteen times after finding me. To me, however, those seven minutes lasted half a lifetime. We
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For almost a year, I tried to open my lunchbox as quietly as possible. The problem was not the box. It was what was inside. Most of my classmates brought sandwiches, noodles,
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I remember my first library card because I nearly lost it before I reached home. It was a tiny rectangle of laminated paper, and I kept taking it out of my pocket
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Jo March and Anne Shirley would probably begin talking within thirty seconds of meeting each other. Stopping them might be considerably harder. Both are imaginative, ambitious and constantly told, in different ways,
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Hermione Granger and Matilda Wormwood would probably get along brilliantly. They love books. They learn quickly. They are often the smartest people in the room. And both discover that intelligence can be
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