"Monsoon Season Secrets" follows thirteen-year-old Aisha through her heartfelt diary entries, sketches, and notes exchanged with friends during Penang’s longest monsoon season. Feeling overlooked as her best friend Anna drifts toward a new classmate, Aisha discovers a mysterious mural hidden beneath an underpass - one that honors forgotten souls from past floods. With the help of reclusive artist...
When colorful chalk mysteriously rains from the sky onto Armenian Street, a group of neighborhood kids discovers that the overnight drawings predict small, meaningful events in their lives. Shy artist Iman realizes his hands are somehow connected to the magic, and as the children follow the chalk's gentle clues, they learn that the true magic lies not in prediction - but in kindness, friendship...
When twelve-year-old Mei begins seeing a mysterious flickering lantern on the misty trails of Penang Hill - a light no one else can see - she teams up with her brave and curious friends to uncover its secret. Guided by clues from her late grandmother’s journal and a series of eerie yet gentle encounters, the children follow the ghostly light deep into the jungle, where they discover a century-old...
“Another Level 7 victory for Lily X!” the announcement blared, making Eddy wince. He hated the booming voice that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere all at once. All around him, other kids, even his sister Anna, were glued to their personal screens, their faces glowing with the bluish light of the latest "Mind-Bend" game. Eddy sighed. The Land of Screens. That's what they called their...
“Look out!” yelled Eddy. He fell right into a pile of leaves. His sister, Anna, laughed. She pointed a stick at his head. “You almost missed it, Captain Clumsy!” she said. Anna held up an old, wrinkly paper. It was not a drawing of their yard. This was special. Blue lines on the paper seemed to move. They glowed and wiggled. “It’s a treasure map, Eddy!” she whispered. Her eyes were big. “I found...
“Eddy, look out!” shouted Anna, but it was too late.
With a loud crack , Eddy’s skateboard hit the edge of the curb and flipped beneath him. He tumbled onto the sidewalk with a thud, scraping his elbow and sending his favorite green skateboard skidding into the gutter.
The summer had barely begun, and already things weren’t going as planned.
“Did you hear that?” Anna whispered, her flashlight shaking so hard it looked like it was trying to do the cha-cha.
Eddy squinted up the attic stairs. “Hear what?”
A long, slow creak echoed from above—like someone stepping on a giant peanut.
"Did you see it?!" Eddy whispered, his eyes wide as moons. Anna tugged her scarf tighter around her neck and squinted at the empty lantern post in front of the village bakery. "Nope. Not again." Every night, just after midnight, the glowing dragon lantern lit up the sleepy village of Tanjung Tokong like a firefly wrapped in silk. But every morning, it vanished without a trace. And no one could...
"Zap!" Eddy jumped back as a spark flew from the tangled mess of wires in his hands. "That was close," he said, brushing soot off his overalls. His workshop—a cozy shed behind his house filled with blinking gadgets and humming machines—was buzzing with excitement.
"I think it's working!" said Anna, peering over his shoulder. She was Eddy’s best friend and always helped him test his wildest ideas.
Eddy, a lively nine-year-old with wild brown curls and a laugh that could cheer up a rainy day, was bursting with excitement for the annual school talent show. He dreamed of winning with his tap-dancing routine, his shiny shoes clicking like a metronome. But there was a hitch: Eddy’s nerves always got the better of him, making his feet tangle like jump ropes.
