Every book holds a
secret world

Friends who trade letters, but have never met. A red-eyed girl watching from the trees. A secret club smuggling books into a school library. Which one will you discover next?

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Hot off the press · Puffin · September 2026

The Book Ghosts

Secrets, sabotage, story time!

Meet the Book Ghosts—Saumya, Twisha, Jay, Yuvi and Zeenat—a super-secret club of book lovers with a mission: sneaking ‘silly’ and ‘banned’ books into their school library. But when a mean defamation campaign targets the town’s free mobile library, the Book Ghosts must take on their biggest mission yet. Who’s behind the mess? Can they outsmart the troublemaker before the library is forced to shut down? And can five determined kids prove that books—and the freedom to read—belong to everyone?

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Varsha Seshan holding her Crossword Book Award

Meet the author

Hello, I’m Varsha.

I write books for children: picture books for the very young, chapter books for older readers, and middle-grade novels about friendship, courage and more.

I also run online book clubs and creative writing programmes for young readers, and visit schools across India.