The READING CHALLENGE 2023 is open to all students of class VI to VIII and IX to XIII. Winners will be selected from these two groups.
The challenge starts on April 1, 2023 and ends on 31 Jaunary, 2024.
Students must only read the books in the prescribed lists (given below). If a student wants to read books not mentioned in these lists, he or she must first consult the librarian.
After reading each book students must write a BOOK REVIEW in their own words in an A4 size sheet and submit it in the library.
Final result will be based on the number of BOOK REVIEWS submitted.
Here are the lists of books prescribed for READING CHALLENGE 2023.
| BOOKS PRESCRIBED FOR CLASSES VI-VIII | |
|---|---|
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The Enormous Crocodile | Roald Dahl |
| The BFG | Roald Dahl |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Roald Dahl |
| The Witches | Roald Dahl |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl |
| George’s Marvellous Medicine | Roald Dahl |
| The Enormous Crocodile | Roald Dahl |
| The Twits | Roald Dahl |
| Geronimo Stilton: Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House | Elisabetta Dami |
| Geronimo Stilton: The Mona Mousa Code | Elisabetta Dami |
| Geronimo Stilton: The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid | Elisabetta Dami |
| Geronimo Stilton: The Phantom of the Subway | Elisabetta Dami |
| Geronimo Stilton: The Haunted Castle | Elisabetta Dami |
| Geronimo Stilton: The Hour of Magic | Elisabetta Dami |
| Geronimo Stilton: The Karate Mouse | Elisabetta Dami |
| Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw | Jeff Kinney |
| Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever | Jeff Kinney |
| The Blue Umbrella | Ruskin Bond |
| The Thief | Ruskin Bond |
| The Cherry Tree | Ruskin Bond |
| Ghost Trouble | Ruskin Bond |
| Cricket for the Crocodile | Ruskin Bond |
| Grandfather’s Private Zoo | Ruskin Bond |
| Dust on the Mountain | Ruskin Bond |
| Rusty, The Boy from the Hills | Ruskin Bond |
| The Night Train at Deoli | Ruskin Bond |
| The Tiger in the Tunnel | Ruskin Bond |
| Time Stops at Shamli | Ruskin Bond |
| The Room on the Roof | Ruskin Bond |
| Grandma’s Bag of Stories | Sudha Murty |
| Grandparents’ Bag of Stories | Sudha Murty |
| The Gopi Diaries: Finding Love | Sudha Murty |
| The Magic of the Lost Temple | Sudha Murty |
| The Sage with Two Horns: Unusual Tales from Mythology | Sudha Murty |
| The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories of Wit and Magic | Sudha Murty |
| The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna | Sudha Murty |
| The Invisible Man | H G Wells |
| Five on a Treasure Island | Enid Blyton |
| Five Go Adventuring Again | Enid Blyton |
| Five Run Away Together | Enid Blyton |
| Five Go to Smuggler’s Top | Enid Blyton |
| Five Go Off in a Caravan | Enid Blyton |
| Five on Kirrin Island Again | Enid Blyton |
| Five Go Off to Camp | Enid Blyton |
| Five Get into Trouble | Enid Blyton |
| BOOKS PRESCRIBED FOR CLASSES IX-XIII | |
|---|---|
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| Turning Points : A Journey Through Challenges | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| The Lost World | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Time Machine | H G Wells |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Rabindranath Tagore – Short Stories | Rabindranath Tagore |
| The Enormous Crocodile | Roald Dahl |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Kid Who Came From Space | Ross Welford |
| The Blue Umbrella | Ruskin Bond |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Grandma’s Bag of Stories | Sudha Murty |
| Grandparents’ Bag of Stories | Sudha Murty |
| The Gopi Diaries: Finding Love | Sudha Murty |
| The Magic of the Lost Temple | Sudha Murty |
| The Sage with Two Horns: Unusual Tales from Mythology | Sudha Murty |
| The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories of Wit and Magic | Sudha Murty |
| The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna | Sudha Murty |
| Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives | Sudha Murty |
| Wise and Otherwise: A salute to Life | Sudha Murty |
| The Gopi Diaries: Coming Home | Sudha Murty |
| How the Earth Got Its Beauty | Sudha Murty |
| The Magic of the Lost Temple | Sudha Murty |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis |
| The Girl in Room 105 | Chetan Bhagat |
| 400 Days | Chetan Bhagat |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| Atomic Habits: The life-changing million copy bestseller | James Clear |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green |
| Turtles All the Way Down | John Green |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| Life is What You Make It | Preeti Shenoy |
| Rabindranath Tagore – Short Stories | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell |
| The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku | Ray Satyajit and Majumdar Indrani |
| The Enormous Crocodile | Roald Dahl |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Blue Umbrella | Ruskin Bond |
| From the Cradle of Nature | Ruskin Bond |
| One Day, Life Will Change | Saranya Umakanthan |
| You Only Live Once: One for Passion Two for Love Three for Friendship | Stuti Changle |
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