Books published by publisher Duckbill Books

What do you do when you're all alone, with no friends at all?Elizabeth is apprehensive about going back to Hill School. For a start, it has now become the Hill School for Holistic Learning. Her best friend has left school and she is all alone. And when school begins, everything is different. There are no exams or classes, they have to talk to trees and do weird things like dance yoga. For the class project, Elizabeth is teamed with with three girls - Mahrukh, whom she knows slightly and Ayesha and Maitreyi, two new girls whom she does not like. As if this weren't bad enough, Elizabeth manages to lose a historic journal ...

This book tells the stories of ten Indian conservationists working in diverse ways to save the world from human destructiveness, often facing seemingly insurmountable odds. Romulus Whitaker Parineeta DandekarRohan ArthurVidya AthreyaAparajita DattaJay MazoomdaarMinal PathakRohan ChakravartyKavitha KurugantiLaxmi KambleBijal Vachharajani and Radha Rangarajan write about the inspiring lives of people who are striving to solve the most pressing problems on this planet—from climate change to habitat degradation, from food insecurity to species loss.

Magesh is different from other children. He's no good with words. And when he's misunderstood he gets upset and his movements get jerky. But there are two things he loves: playing with his brother Vignesh, and his Vibhuti Cat. But what will happen when Magesh starts going to school? Will he take Vibhuti cat along?This book was a winner in the Children First writing competition, organised by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts, and Duckbill Books.

Kartik lives, breathes and dreams football—and now he cannot play!When Kartik and Kavya move from Kolkata to Rourkela, neither is enthusiastic about living in a small town and leaving their old friends behind. But it is especially tough on Kartik. At school in Kolkata, no one paid much attention to the fact that he was one-armed, whereas in the new school, he is treated like a freak. Worst of all, the school football coach refuses to let him play.Will Kartik overcome the odds and play football again? Find out how Kartik and his new friends take on life’s challenges, in this tale of fun, football and friendship.

What do you do when you have secrets you can’t share?After her first term in Hill School, Ayesha is quite happy to go back to school--because she has new friends. But suddenly, the secret she has been hiding since she joined school is threatening to spill out and ruin everything. Will Mahrukh, Elizabeth and Maitreyi still be her friends after they find out?But then a girl from school is harassed by some boys in town. The friends have to make sure that the culprits are punished and the girl does not have to suffer for no fault of hers. And Ayesha realises that secrets should sometimes be shared ...