The Conch Bearer

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689872429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
The acclaimed short-story author and poet transports readers from the teeming streets of India to the rolling Himalayas, in this lyrical, exotic, and rich middle-grade fantasy.

The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596430679
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
Set in contemporary India, as well as several hundred years in the past, thistitle continues the adventures of Anand and his quest to become a full memberof the Brotherhood of the Conch.

Grandma and the Great Gourd

Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596433787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.

Shadowland

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1626726744
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
The hero of the Brotherhood of the Conch series, now fifteen, is settling back into his life as an apprentice in the lush Silver Valley, nestled high in the Himalayas. There he continues to learn the secret arts of the Brotherhood. But suddenly his adopted home is reduced to a barren wasteland when his beloved conch, the valley's source of magical energy, is stolen by an unknown force. Together with his friend Nisha, Anand embarks on what may be his most dangerous mission—traveling to the cold and forbidding world of Shadowland in his attempt to restore the conch to its rightful place, and his home to its original splendor. The third and final book in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's riveting series.

Tusk and Stone

Author: Malcolm Joseph Bosse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781886910744
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After a criminal gang attacks his caravan and he loses his identity as a Brahmin, Arjun resigns himself to his new life as a soldier, becomes an elephant driver, and searches for his kidnapped sister. At the height of his fame he is captured again, and as a slave once more, finds unexpected fulfillment as a stone carver.

The Conch Bearer

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780761319351
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Action and adventure are combined in this exotic, compelling fantasy set in contemporary India. Young Adult.

The Conch Bearer: The Brotherhood of the Conch

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8194597315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Award-winning author and poet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is widely known for her novels, Sister of My Heart, The Mistress of Spices, The Vine of Desire and Queen of Dreams. Translated into 11 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese, her other writings include two prize-winning short story collections, two volumes of poetry, and her novels for young children. Among the awards and citations she has are the O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the American Book Award. Born in India, she currently lives in Texas where she teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416917683
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Set in contemporary India, as well as several hundred years in the past, this title continues the adventures of Anand and his quest to become a full member of the Brotherhood of the Conch.

Children's Fantasy Literature

Author: Michael Levy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316483134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.

The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810863456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.