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The Midnight Children

The Moonlight World

Tunku Halim

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English
Penguin Random House SEA
26 August 2021
What do you do

when strange things happen around you?

The

Midnight Children trilogy is a series of dark fantasy novels for children age

8-13 combining Asian mythology and Gothic elements.

The characters,

ten-year-old Min and twelve-year-old Zak are the main protagonists. In The

Midnight Children- The Moonlight Lands, Zak by helping a ghostly girl at the

hospital brings his mother out of a coma. In the meantime, Min is now Uncle

Obb's prisoner in the Moonlight Lands. He has also become king of the oily

creatures and wants to eat her, Zak and her father because of their inherent

magic. King Obb leads his army across the desert to attack the Rising, an

army of mostly children who are rebelling against the oily creatures.

The

Rising's man-horses raid King Obb's camp and Min is rescued. Meanwhile, King

Obb sends Ragdoo, his Lord Chancellor, to kidnap Zak. Ragdoo betrays King Obb

by taking Zak to the Moonlight Lands to defeat King Obb. King Obb's army of

oily creatures attack the Rising who are hopelessly outnumbered. Just as Min

and her father are about to be beheaded, Zak appears and, using their

combined magic, they turn the tide of the bloody battle.
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Imprint:   Penguin Random House SEA
Country of Publication:   Singapore
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   140g
ISBN:   9789814914239
ISBN 10:   9814914231
Pages:   136
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tunku Halim was born in 1964. He is dubbed as Asia's Stephen King and by delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is often regarded as 'World Gothic'. His novel, Dark Demon Rising (1997), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye (2000), is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore's Language and Literature course. He has also won first prize in a Fellowship of Australian Writers' short story competition and has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia's Popular-Star Readers' Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017. His short-story collections include-The Rape of Martha Teoh & Other Chilling Stories (1997), BloodHaze- 15 Chilling Tales (1999), The Woman Who Grew Horns and Other Works (2001), 7 Days to Midnight (2013) and The Rape of Nancy Ng - 13 Nightmares (2018). His other novels include Juriah's Song (2008), Last Breath (2014) and A Malaysian Restaurant in London (2015). His non-fiction books include A Children's History of Malaysia (2003), History of Malaysia-A Children's Encyclopedia (2009) and a biography of his late father, A Prince Called ""Charlie"" (2018). Tunku Halim's collection of short horror stories, published by Penguin Random House SEA in 2019, Scream to the Shadows, was a best seller in Singapore and Malaysia.

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