Tamarind & the Star of Ishta: from the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award

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And is the lamagaia that Asha keeps seeing really her grandmother's spirit guiding her, or is itjust a mountain bird as Jeevan keeps saying? Throughout, there will be plentiful opportunities for children to answer retrieval and inference questions presented in different formats, as well as defining new vocabulary in context, predicting, sequencing and summarising. Her arrival in India brings culture shock, secrets, and unanswered questions: What is the tension between her father and the family, and why will no one talk about her mother? In 2017, something very exciting happened - I entered The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Award with my story Song Of The Mountain and won!

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Immerse yourself in a lushworld of spirit birdsand mango trees, snow leopardsand majestic mountains, in a sumptuous and sizzling debut. This is a 15-session Literary Leaf for Tamarind and the Star of Ishtaby Jasbinder Bilan which covers all aspects of the Lower Key Stage 2 content domains. Tamarind and her cousin Sufia are quite challenging characters, and the family’s reactions to Tamarind’s presence are sometimes surprising – but when Tamarind puts the pieces of the past together everything falls into place. She works as a teacher and in her free time (when she's not out walking Enzo), loves writing stories for children.The story is very touching, but even more affecting is Bilan’s gorgeous prose, which evokes a world full of wonder, glitter and light. So, when she arrives at her ancestral home, a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens, she's full of questions for her extended family.

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But when her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their atmospheric ancestral home—a huge mansion high in the Himalaya mountains. An unsettling, magical thriller that leaves you unsure where reality ends and the supernatural begins. If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Tamarind and the Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan. With themes of morality, friendship, teamwork and loyalty, this exciting adventure book also has lots of tension and jeopardy. This is an intriguing and emotional story which weaves together themes of identity, belonging and bereavement with mythology and magical realism, all within the stunning setting of a grand old house in India.

Everyone is very welcoming and it’s an almost magical place, except for the fact that she’s forbidden from going into half the garden and no one will talk about her mum.