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View(s):9 years and below | Write not more than 150 words on ‘The event I enjoyed most in 2013’.
The Secret Seven Mystery by Enid Blyton
A girl has mysteriously run away from home and her parents are frantic with worry. Can the Secret Seven follow the clues and catch up with the girl, or will Susie, Jack’s troublesome little sister, get in the way?
10 – 13 years | Write 150 – 200 words on ‘Looking forward to another new school year’.
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighbouring Indians, build a well, and fight a fire. Includes a detailed account of how the novel was written and published.
14 – 16 years | Write 200 – 250 words on ‘My plans for the year 2014’.
Uprooted (Gamperaliya) By Martin Wickramasinghe
Uprooted the English translation of Gamperaliya, the first of the trilogy depicts the change in a rural southern hamlet under British rule. The pre-capitalist socio-economic structure was torn apart by the introduction of rudimental capitalist relations more suited to the interests of the British masters.
Gamperaliya depicts this changing village with the decay of the rural aristocracy symbolized by the Kaisaruwatte Walauwa and the emergence of an English educated middle class symbolized by the young school master Piyal. The landed gentry lose their power which is now wielded by the nascent trader class.