Region: Malaysia

Materials from Malaysia

The Kampung Boy

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. 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, the traditional way of life in his village (or kampung) is steadily disappearing, [...]

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Carpe Diem

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

16-year-old overachiever Vassar Spore, daughter of overachiever parents, who in true overachiever fashion named her after an elite women’s college. Vassar expects her sophomore summer to include AP and AAP (Advanced Advanced Placement) classes. Enter a world-traveling relative who sends her plans into a tailspin when she blackmails Vassar’s parents into forcing their only child [...]

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Kampung Boy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 7, 2007

Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.

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Forest Of The Clouded Leopard

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

The death of his grandfather forces a fifteen-year-old Iban boy to face the conflict between the traditions and beliefs of his tribe and the modern ways he has learned at a Western-style boarding school.

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