skills outlined in this book, and win all the 24 Merit Badges and
4 Shields inside.
The best part? You compete only with yourself!By the time you’re through, you will own skills as diverse as
growing your own veggies in a Square Foot Garden to petitioning
for change in your community, making a cup of chai to setting up
a sickroom, launching your own business to telling time by the
position of the moon!
Written by bestselling author Roopa Pai in her unmatchable style,
this book packs in 99 simple but vital techniques that will enable
you to be a hero to yourself – and a role model to your peers.
Are. You. READY!?
Roopa Pai is one of India’s best-known children’s authors. She
has written more than 20 books, spanning subjects ranging
from popular science to fantasy and philosophy to economics.
Her books, which include the award-winning national
bestseller The Gita for Children, and Taranauts, India’s first
complete fantasy-adventure series for children, are enjoyed by
readers of all ages.
This computer engineer brings together three other loves –
history, working with young people, and her home town
Bengaluru – in her day job as a guide with BangaloreWalks, a
history and heritage walks and tours company.
She is currently hard at work trying – and often failing – to
master the 99 skills she believes every world-conquering teen
must possess. (No, she is no longer one.)