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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
2) Kampung boy
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia. Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious study, and work on his family's rubber plantation. Meanwhile,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nina's visits to her two faraway grandmothers--one in Malaysia and one in England--unfold side-by-side, featuring similarities and differences between the two"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells a Malaysian folk tale in which a lonely girl, Suraya, inherits from her grandmother a pelesit, a ghostly demon, who proves to be a good companion, bringing both danger and hope.
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