The History Workroom Llp: 3 books

Amber is a tomboy who likes to sit with her legs up on the chair. Mother thinks that is very unladylike. She says only Samsui women put their legs up on a chair. To get her way, Amber decides to be a Samsui girl – at least for a day. Samsui Girl follows Amber's adventures as she learns to look and work like a true Samsui woman. But it was not as easy as she thinks!

Amber is excited at her new birthday present from Uncle John – a pair of cymbals. But Mother is not happy when Amber marches around the house, banging the cymbals all day long. She says Amber is a “whole noisy Wayang rolled up in one small girl”. Amber is curious. She has never heard of the...

John Chow is in trouble. Sent away on holiday, he unwittingly enters a top-spinning competition with a champion spinner. John can barely spin a bottle, let alone the traditional Malay top, the gasing. The stakes are high. The reputation of his uncle and friends ride on his shoulders. Does John have the nerves and skills to withstand the whirlwind training and emerge as the champion?