Puteh has a new friend, Itam, a kitchen help adopted by her grandmother. The two children find themselves in trouble when they get into a fight in the kitchen. Itam is punished for Puteh’s misdeed. Read about how Pute...
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Keith, a reporter has to interview the first person to be diagnosed with AIDS and write a “newsy” story. It was the beginning of a lesson on the social attitudes towards AIDS and its victims in this part of the world.
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Taxi Drivers you should never trust. An amnesiac who never had an identity to begin with. An issue from Bard’s Digest. A hitchhiker meets the Car Boot Strangler. A character who writes her own stories. A magician forsake...
Adeline Foo / Lee Kowling Georgette's Mooncakes (2009)
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Two little girls found themselves caught up in the middle of an uprising in ancient China, as the Chinese revolted against their Mongol rulers. Against a backdrop of mystical Chinese lanterns and monstrous Japanese kites...
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A touching yet unsentimental story about growing up in Singapore seen through the eyes of Yong, a 12-year-old, who experiences the paradoxes of life even if he doesn’t always understand everything. Between the rigorous ...
Adeline Foo / Christine Lim Simpson Guai Wu, The Chinese Elf (2009)
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Guai Wu looks different from other children. Because of this, they shun him and hurl ugly names and unkind words at him. One day, Guai Wu met a seamstress who took him into her house, and offered him food and shelter. Th...