Books on World Cultures: East Indian/East Indian American

Grades 6-8

Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents Adapted by Sarah Conover


Gandhi by Demi








The Conch Bearer: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni








Mud City by Deborah Ellis









Gandhi by Leonard Everett Fisher







The Jungle Book (The Whole Story) by Rudyard Kipling






Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling








Shiva's Fire by Suzanne Fisher Staples








Motherland: A Novel by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan








Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan









Grades 9-12

1 Conover, Sarah (adapter) Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents
2 Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Conch Bearer: A Novel, The
3 Hidier, Tanuja Desai Born Confused
4 Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Heat and Dust
5 Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Householder, The
6 Mukherjee, Bharati Jasmine
7 Narayan, R. K. Malgudi Days
8 Narayan, R. K. Waiting for the Mahatma
9 Roy, Arundhati God of Small Things: A Novel, The
10 Rushdie, Salman Haroun and the Sea of Stories
11 Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children
12 Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta Motherland: A Novel
13 Whelan, Gloria Homeless Bird