Rusty Runs Away

It is really a wonderful book, and can also be called as 'Rusty-2', followed by 'Rusty, the boy from the hills' (I did not read the first one). Rusty enters teenage in this book, and he loses his father and grandparents, whom he loved the most. He is not fond of his mother as his father and mother were separated very early after Rusty was born. He grew up with his father, but after he passed away, was sent to a cruel guardian. Due to some reasons, he will be sent to a boarding school, from which he tries to make an escape with his friend Daljit. However, he himself returns back to the school with his friend and soon both of them get rusticated. I would not like to tell the reader of this the whole story, but if you want to know what happened next, then read what is written below the image. Written by Ruskin Bond

Then, in the last chapter, he is in the hands of his cruel guardian again. He is restricted to meet any Indians and go to the Indian Bazaar, but he somehow manages to and makes some friends who persuade him to play Holi, the festival of colours. He is then beated by his guardian for ignoring his orders and then he fights and hurts his guardian badly. Then he turns homeless, but a friend offers him shelter, and he gets a job as an English tutor.