Just out!
It’s time for a story …
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?
Winner
Crossword Award
2025
for The Wall Friends Club
Jury award
FICCI
2026
for The Wall Friends Club
Varsha’s book fair
Wander the shelves
What will you find?
From the shelf
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The Book Ghosts
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Nami and Jhalak: Stinkypur Guardians
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Think Big!
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Award winner
The Wall Friends Club
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Fishbowl
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Runner-up
Red Eyes
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Uncontrollable
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Shortlisted
Dhara’s Revolution
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The Best Idea of All
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Shortlisted
The Clockwala’s Clues
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Finalist
Dragonflies, Jigsaws and Seashells
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Sisters at New Dawn
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The Prophecy of Rasphora
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Runner-up
The Story-Catcher
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Honour book
How I Feel
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How Big Is a Whale Shark?
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Today I Am
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What Will Happen?
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?
Ages 10 and up
Meet the storyteller
Hello, I’m Varsha.
I write books for children from my desk in Pune: picture books for the very young, chapter books full of clues and ideas, and middle-grade novels about friendship, grief, courage and other worlds.
I also run online book clubs and creative writing programmes for young readers, and visit schools across India.
- Puffin
- HarperCollins
- Scholastic
- Duckbill
- Pratham Books
Story Corner
Curl up and listen
Read-alouds, sneak peeks and free picture books to share.
Workshops
Come and make your own magic
Ages 7 to 12
Book Club for ages 7 and 8, Read, Write, Explore for ages 9 and 10, and Deep Read for ages 11 and 12. New editions for ages 7 to 10 begin every alternate month.
Ages 9 to 11 and 12 to 14
Online writing programmes, twice a year: April to June, and October to December.
Schools and educators
Puzzles, poetry and election campaigns, built around the books themselves.
Letters by moonlight
Letters by daylight
Get email notifications about Varsha’s programmes, sent to a grown-up’s inbox.
Opens a short Google Form, for grown-ups to fill in.