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    Puffin Classics: Vagrants in the Valley - Two Novels of Adolescence  (English, Paperback, Bond Ruskin)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House India
    • Genre: Juvenile Fiction
    • ISBN: 9780140239591, 0140239596
    • Pages: 236
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    Fans of one of India’s finest writers, Ruskin Bond, need not go any further when you have this book that contains two of his classic novels of adolescence: The Room on the Roof and Vagrants in the Valley.

    Summary of the Book

    The Room on the Roof

    This book is about sixteen-year-old Rusty. He is an Anglo-Indian boy who decides to run away from the European community in a desperate attempt to escape the diminishing community and his horrible guardian. He is happy to find that life after this is packed with excitement and adventure.

    Vagrants in the Valley

    This book picks up from where The Room on the Roof ends. Here, Rusty is joined by Kishen who has also run away from is home. As they go ahead with their adventure, they meet more people. Make more friends, and enjoy many escapades. However, they also start to understand how complex life and growing up can be. They begin to realize the boundaries that surround even the most free of spirits.

    About Ruskin Bond

    Ruskin Bond is an Indian writer of British descent. He was recognized by The Indian Council for Child Education for his role in the growth of children’s literature in India. For this, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for his work Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1999, and again in 2014. Today, he lives with his adopted family in Landour, near Missourie.

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    Publication Year
    • October
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    • Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi and Simla. His first novel The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over five hundred short stories, essays and novellas (some included in the collections Dust on the Mountains and Classic Ruskin Bond) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi governments Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.
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    • 198 mm
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    • 129 mm
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    Pretty good

    This sequel to The Room on the Roof traces Rusty's journey in the valley with Kishan. Many new characters appear, including a distant aunt of Rusty , his father's old friend and a slightly eccentric young man , as ambitious as Rusty. Bond again brings back the old magic here through the hills , mountain ,the town, and an old abandoned church. But somewhere this novel differs from the first one,........Room on the Roof carried a slightly different theme.........,perhaps many times the first c...
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    Quiet fast and prompt delivery......

    Ruskin Bond's masterpiece . It brilliantly describes the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts. A moving tale of love and friendship. It has endured as Ruskin Bond's most beloved novel
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    Alexander K Muthalali

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    Bond with the Best..!!

    ** The 1st book, I ever read **
    The book made me realize, how Refreshing reading is.. I gladly blame the book for turning me into a bibliophile..!!
    Both stories are refreshing semi-autobiographical texts. In The Room On The Roof, we follow our young hero(Rusty) as he leaves a domineering and hostile, suffocating environment with his English guardian to explore the world beyond the protestant community that he was raised in. To his delight, Rusty finds that life on the open road is packed wi...
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    Ritesh Shrivastav

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    Fair

    Book looks pretty old and dusty and the packing isn't that great either.But not at all bad purchase
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    Nice product

    It's an amazing book which is continued by THE ROOM ON THE ROOF by Ruskin Bond. And I will specially recommend this book for 13-16 years children.
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    Tista Paik

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    the struggle of teens..

    it tells the story of our special mr. bond relating to his teen age..more of his struggle to survive without money, parents, and any support..it is full of his friendships and few affairs at that time ..and what led him to leave india for some time..it was surprising to know how much he had to suffer at that time..like sleeping on the parks etc..
    read it to know him better..and much deeper..
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    Awesome

    Connects with the readers very well.
    Finished it in 2 days
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    Mohnish kumar

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    vagrants in the valley

    a book which really takes you to the world of imagination.Its a book full of life.
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    SHEER MASTERPIECE FROM OUR GRAND OLD MAN

    Room On The Roof is a story of a sixteen year old boy Rusty of Anglo- Indian community whose parents had died since he was a child and who leads a disciplined life under his strict principled guardian Mr. Harrison. Rusty is barred from mixing with "dirty" Indians. He gets refreshment and discovers another life after he mixes with the Indians, consisting mainly of boys below his age. Ahead, there are encounters with many people and Rusty's life slowly gets transformed.
    Vagrants In The Valley s...
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    Brilliant

    Print Quality is Good. Condition of the Book is good. 👍
    Excited for this one; Part 2 of The Room on the Roof.!
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    Questions and Answers
    Q:Does this book contain two stories ? If yes which two ?
    A:No. Only one. Vagrants in the Valley. About what happens to Rusty and his friends after 'The Room on the Roof'.. first book.
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    Q:I have the room on the roof already, is this the sequel ? And we only get one book right ?
    A:Yes. Only one. Sequel to the book 'The Room on the Roof'.
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    Q:is this version illustrated?
    A:No.
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    Q:Did we will get 2 books together or we have to buy 2 differently?
    A:Both the stories are compiled in a single book. So you'll get only one book with two stories in it.
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    A:Yes. A small flipkart bookmark
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    Q:are both novels present in this book?
    A:Yes.
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    Q:Does this book contain both the stories 'The room on the roof' and 'Vagrants in the valley' or only 'Vagrants in the valley' ?
    A:It is a sequel of room in the roof but yet u will understand .But if u wanna read with relish then go for at 1st room on the roof.
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    Q:Are the stories abridged or unabridged ?
    A:Unabridged.
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    Q:illustrated edition or not?
    A:No
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