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Mehraj Book Distributors

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Tel 9287 8786

ABOUT SOME OF THE WRITERS - 7th Cycle Texts

Minfong Ho 
Born in Burma in 1951 to Chinese parents, Minfong Ho has lived in Thailand and Singapore, and currently resides in Ithaca in upstate New York with her husband and three children. At 16, she left Thailand for Taiwan where she studied Chinese history and literature for two years at Tunghai University. After that she studied at Cornell University and graduated with a B.A. in Economics and later a Master of Fine Arts. 


Scot Gardner
website: http://www.scotgardner.com/

Scot Gardner is an Australian writer known for his young adult novels. He has worked as a counsellor and a youth worker before becoming a full time novelist. He wasn't born reading and writing; in fact, he left school in year eleven to undertake an apprenticeship in gardening with the local council. He has worked as a waiter, masseur, delivery truck driver, home dad, counselor, and musician.

These days he spends half the year writing and half the year on the road talking to people about his books and the craft of writing.


Chua Kok Yee
He was born and raised in Ipoh, and is currently living in Kuala Lumpur. He holds a degree in accounting from the University of Malaya, and currently works as a commercial controller in a multinational company. His first love is drawing, but discovered a passion for writing after attending the Silverfish Writing Programme.


Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014)
He was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel, Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honour by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.

NEW! 7th Cycle Poems for SPM 2016 Onwards

The new cycle applies to students sitting for SPM in 2016 and later.

POEMS: from Poems Then And Now by Fiona Waters (Evans)

Theme: Lessons in Life

1.  Scattering the Ashes - Andrew Fusek Peters

2.  Remember- Christina Rosetti

3.  A Little Learning - Alexander Pope

4.  If - Rudyard Kipling 

5.  Half-Term -  U A Fanthorpe

6.  London - William Blake
Theme: Nature

7.  The Tyger - William Blake

8.  Mooses - Ted Hughes

9.  To Autumn - John Keats

10. Winter - Andrew Young 

11. Daffodils - William Wordsworth

12. Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening - Dorothy Wordsworth

Theme: People
13. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe

14. Best Bone - Paul Hyland

15. When You Are Old - WB Yeats

16. The Little Black Boy - William Blake

17. Field of Vision - Seamus Heaney

18. Miners - Wilfred Owen



NOVELS:
-The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho (Square Fish)
-The Lost King by Scot Gardner (Pearson)
  

PLAYS (DRAMA):
-The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
-The Play of FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON (by Daniel Keyes) adapted by Bert Coules (Heinnemann   
 Plays)
-Hope Springs by Richard Conlon (Heinnemann)

SHORT STORIES:

The titles of the short stories are:
1. Embracing Your Shadow by Chua Kok Yee
2. Thieving Daughter by Chua Kok Yee
3. Sambal Without Anchovies by Chua Kok Yee
4. Turning Thirty by Minfong Ho
5. Birds of Paradise by Minfong Ho
6. The Winter Hibiscus by Minfong Ho

Chua Kok Yee's stories can be found in his collection of short stories, Without Anchovies (ISBN: 978-983-3221-27-1), published by Silverfish Books Sdn Bhd.
Minfong Ho's stories are from her book, Journeys - An Anthology of Short Stories, published by Marshall Cavendish