The Reading Challenge

Written By Pramiti School

As per the tradition started in the first edition of the Pramiti Literature Festival, we have a reading challenge for the children, in keeping with our goals of encouraging young minds to read books and engage with literature.

The books that we have selected for this year have been listed below along with the suitable age group it is meant for.

Rules of the challenge:

  • Every learner and adult at Pramiti is expected to pick three or four books that they will read starting from June 24th, 2024 till the first date of the festival i.e. September 26th, 2024.

  • Books can be selected from upto two age group levels below one’s own age group. For instance, a child who is 14 years old can select a book from the section marked “Ages 12 and above” but not from below that. Learners are not encouraged to select books from beyond one age level above them.

  • The books selected by the learner or adult will have to be purchased by them and will not be provided by the school.

  • A series of assignments will be published, in a grade-wise manner so that we can evaluate the child’s engagement with the selected literature.

  • The best of these produced works will be showcased as a part of the Festival exhibit and will be curated by the student body for the festival.

The Reading List:

For learners age 6 and above:

  • Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren

  • The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner

  • The Tale of Desperaeux - Kate Dicamillo

  • Charlotte's Web - EB White

For learners age 7 and above:

  • Malgudi Days - RK Narayan

  • The Puffin Book of World Myths and Legends - Anita Nair

For learners age 8 and above:

  • Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar

  • Matilda - Roald Dahl

  • The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate

  • Wonder - RJ Palacio

  • Holes - Louis Sachar

  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick

  • Tiger Boy - Mitali Perkins

  • The Room on the Roof - Ruskin Bond

For learners age 9 and above:

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - RL Stevenson

  • Treasure Island - RL Stevenson

  • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle

  • Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

For learners age 12 and above:

  • Shatranj Ke Khiladi - Munshi Premchand

  • A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

  • Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand

  • When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

For learners age 13 and above:

  • Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

  • Train to Pakistan - Kushwanth Singh

  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

  • 1984 - George Orwell

  • Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

  • Parthiban’s Dream - Kalki

  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

For learners age 14 and above:

  • Raag Darbari - Srilal Shukla

  • Mahabharat - Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’

  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

  • The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

  • Parva - SL Bhyrappa

For learners age 15 and above:

  • Silence! The Court is in Session - Vijay Tendulkar

  • Kanyadaan - Vijay Tendulkar

  • The Master and Maragrita - Mikhail Bulgakov

  • Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl

  • The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F Scott Fitzgerald

For learners age 16 and above:

  • Old Man Goriot - Honore de Balzac

  • Candide - Voltaire

  • The Art Experience - M Hiriyanna

  • The Transformation of Nature in Art - Anand Coomaraswamy

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