It was Ruskin Bond’s first literary venture. He had written the novel when he was seventeen and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. The novel revolves around a boy named Rusty, an orphaned seventeen year old Anglo Indian living in Dehradun.
Suitable for: 6 – 9.
Author Name: Ruskin Bond.
Publication: Penguin Books.
The Room on the Roof