Girls as everyone knows are the best. In this collection you will find that they can often be even better than that.Plucky girls. Not-so-lucky girls. Bright girls. Short-of-height girls. Quick girls. Always up-to-tricks girls. Go through these pages to find the most exciting bunch of girls there is-Miss Patiala Junior the beauty queen who plays a sharp game of football Bela a budding detective who investigates sandwiches and other such mysteries Kavita a spunky girl who stands up to a giant Nina the incurable mischief-maker who lands in a weird school that threatens to mend her ways and Maggi the one with noodle curls who learns that there is big comfort in little things. There is also a gutsy village girl whose admiration for a TV news anchor gets her brother out of a mess a really short girl who works her way up into the basketball team a chirpy Egyptian-mummy-fan who sticks up for what she thinks is right a top-of-the-class prefect who suddenly finds herself labelled a thief a clever schoolgirl caught between a bully and a scholarship and a keen quizzer who discovers she can really actually-change the world!Favourite Stories for Girls is a collection of stories-some serious some funny some in-between-about girls who are champions each in her own special way. Written by some of India's best children's writers-all big girls!-Manjula Padmanabhan Poile Sengupta Paro Anand Chatura Rao Deepa Agarwal Adithi Rao Aditi De and many others-these stories are sure to become your all time favourites
ISBN: | 9780143330370 |
Publication date: | 30th April 2007 |
Author: | Padmanabhan Manjula |
Publisher: | India Puffin an imprint of Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 152 pages |
Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |