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Browse English books in Crime, Thrillers & Mystery. Age guidance and English difficulty are assessed separately.

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A Little Help from the Weather — illustrated by Isha Valentine

Level B1 (estimated) · 15 pages · English

A Little Help from the Weather

Written by Hello English
Illustrated by Isha Valentine

A girl escorts a captured turtle back to its family, and the weather helps save a bunch of fish after a serious earthquake.

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A Miaow and A Roar — illustrated by Partho Sengupta

Level A2 (estimated) · 16 pages · English

A Miaow and A Roar

Written by Tanya Luther Agarwal
Illustrated by Partho Sengupta

Vedika and Karan share a real adventure as they sit in Grandfather’s chair. Meet their friends, the lion and the cat in this fun story.

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A New Find — illustrated by Anupama Ajinkya Apte, Greystroke, Lavanya Karthik, Nina Sabnani, Somesh Kumar, Soumya Menon

Level B2 (estimated) · 9 pages · English

A New Find

Written by Vibha Lohani
Illustrated by Anupama Ajinkya Apte, Greystroke, Lavanya Karthik, Nina Sabnani, Somesh Kumar, Soumya Menon

The story talks about the very recent find of seven exoplanets in another solar system. Raghu an eight year old is intrigued by space and dreams to be an astronaut.

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A Night Inside the Perfect Door — illustrated by Amrita Dasgupta, Helga Parekh, Joanna Davala, Proiti Roy, Shadrach Munene, Sourav Sarkar, Subi S, Taposhi Ghoshal, Vinayak Varma

Level B1 (estimated) · 9 pages · English

A Night Inside the Perfect Door

Written by Guanglanliu Dorin Panmei
Illustrated by Amrita Dasgupta, Helga Parekh, Joanna Davala, Proiti Roy, Shadrach Munene, Sourav Sarkar, Subi S, Taposhi Ghoshal, Vinayak Varma

This is a story of two adventurous best friends who experienced an incredible journey to a fairytale world on xxvi (26) of Solmonath (known as February in the modern world.) Germany, Europe. 6,000 BC, Bronze age. Here, after all, a fairytale story is especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true. Enjoy reading!

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A Pebble in My Shoe — illustrated by Jaikar Marur

Level A2 (estimated) · 13 pages · English

A Pebble in My Shoe

Written by Annie Besant
Illustrated by Jaikar Marur

Where did the pebble in Ronu’s shoe come from? Did a giant throw it from the sky above? Or did a sea monster bring the pebble in its jaw? If only Ronu knew!

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A Prank Goes Wrong — illustrated by Onesmus Kakungi

Level B1 (estimated) · 12 pages · English

A Prank Goes Wrong

Written by Hello English
Illustrated by Onesmus Kakungi

Two best friends, Ash and Dennis, play football together every day. They grew up in the same neighbourhood and know each other very well. But one day, Ash asks Dennis to help him do something bad, causing trouble to their friendship.

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A rainbow tale — illustrated by Edwin Irabor, Jesse Breytenbach, Offei Tettey Eugene

Level B1 (estimated) · 15 pages · English

A rainbow tale

Written by Mimi Werna
Illustrated by Edwin Irabor, Jesse Breytenbach, Offei Tettey Eugene

Yana looks around, picks colours to reach the end of rainbow. Find out more about her quest in this book.

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A Special Nest — illustrated by Partho Sengupta

Level A2 (estimated) · 20 pages · English

A Special Nest

Written by Kavita Singh
Illustrated by Partho Sengupta

A bird is trying to build a nest for herself. But everywhere she builds a nest, something or the other disturbs her. What will she do?

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A Stucky Traffic — illustrated by Ajanta Guhathakurta, Alankrita Amaya, Google India, Linh Chi, Tawfiq Ahmed Anwar
A Tale of Two Oxen — illustrated by Swathi Sambasivam

Level B2 (estimated) · 46 pages · English

A Tale of Two Oxen

Written by Madhu B. Joshi
Illustrated by Swathi Sambasivam

Meet Hira and Moti, two handsome oxen, happy and content with their loving owner, Jhuri. Hira and Moti work hard everyday, are clever, kind and best friends to each other. They stay together during times of woe and harmony. Their days are filled with work, love and juicy oilseed cakes. Until one day, when they are forcibly dragged away from home and put to work under harsh and inhuman conditions. Will Hira and Moti surmount all the troubles that come along their way and finally go back home?

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A Very Green Day — illustrated by Phạm Thu Thùy

Level A2 (estimated) · 28 pages · English

A Very Green Day

Written by Alisha Berger
Illustrated by Phạm Thu Thùy

Greeny has so much energy. She doesn't want to nap! One day, she decides to run away. After playing in the hot sun for a while, Greeny gets tired and wants to go home. But now she's lost! How will she get home to her dad?

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