People’s President

Abdul Kalam said, “You have to dream before your dreams can come true”. He did.

October 20, 2018 01:10 pm | Updated October 22, 2018 11:44 am IST

Book: The Adventures of Young Kalam

Publisher: Juggernaut

Author: Stuti Agarwal

Price: ₹ 199

Kalam is the cleverest little boy in his school, perhaps even in his town, Rameswaram. He is annoyingly curious, full of crazy ideas, and up to mad innovations. Everyone around him thinks he is bonkers and best avoided — all except his father, two best friends, and Professor Ramachandran, the science teacher in whose laboratory he tests his inventions. But when the school’s most horrid teacher, Punnakai, spreads lies about the professor’s experiments and plots to throw Kalam out for his latest creation, the two have to find a way to fight back...

Book: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Text: Shamim Padamsee

Art: Lavanya Karthik

Price:₹ 250

How did a struggling young boy from a small town in south India become a premier scientist and one of India’s most loved Presidents?

Follow the remarkable journey of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, whose perseverance, hard work, and exemplary vision helped him achieve extraordinary success.

This is part of Scholastic’s Great Lives series.

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