Shamim Padamsee is passionately interested in writing about India. She believes that children should read more books about India in order to know it better, which in turn will help them to understand and appreciate it better. Her credo is Read India, love India.

A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Read Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won’t be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn’t easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he’s her new best friend. Or when she meets “the Bird Lady,” a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby’s house. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby’s friends—and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that’s come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we’re brave enough to break free.

Ha looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.

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This thrilling novel is a 1906 mystery by English author, poet, and dramatist Eden Phillpotts, set in Dartmoor and the West Indies. Dan Sweetland is about to wive Minnie Marshall, in the deepest Devonshire, in the area of Dartmoor. Dramatically on the day of his wedding, Dan is wrongfully charged with shooting the gamekeeper of the Middlecott preserves. Unfavorable evidence puts Dan at the crime scene, and he is arrested for this crime when the gamekeeper dies from his injuries. The plot circles around Dan's escape and his wife Minnie's attempt to clear his name. The Poacher's Wife is a well-written mystery with intriguing characters. Throughout the book, it keeps the reader wanting to discover "What's next?". Excerpt from The Poacher's Wife "In one corner, round a table, men sat and laughed, but the object of their amusement did not share the fun. He was a powerful, bull-necked man with a clean-shorn face, grey whiskers, and dark eyes that shone brightly under pent-house brows, bushy and streaked with grey."