This first-in-a-series family fiction has something for everyone. Experience life a precocious street boy in western India who is drawn from his mean surroundings to explore the bigger world beyond the trash heap beside the railway station that he calls home. Without family, education, money, connections, or status the odds against him seem overwhelming; but with the help of friends and neighbors, both human and animal, the boy learns to disregard the perception of limits and teaches himself to read and write. Tapori's new skills serve him well as he discovers and helps to unravel an...

Tapori, the curious young boy who grew up on a trash heap beside a railway station in India, is eagerly awaiting receipt of the promised reward money that he earned helping solve the Phoenix scandal (book one in this series). Suddenly his life takes a series of unexpected turns. He is given a new name, Tanish A. Puri, and faces a whole new set of adventures. Join Tanish as he experiences life in a Christian orphanage, a thriving modern city, a juvenile prison, and even a granite quarry before returning home to love and family. See how Tanish, who has out grown his imaginary animal friends,...