Bøker av Maria Sheikh

Jungle school is set deep within the African jungle.Over two hundred years ago, the animals had somehow educated themselves to such a high level of intelligence.All the new born, as well, as the young girls and boys, are known as youngsters.Miss Fowl is the head teacher at Jungle School and she is just waiting for her new youngsters to arrive at school.The youngsters have their own quaint personalities. Pricilla (gorilla) is a moody bad-tempered individual; Charlie (monkey) is a mischievous, hyperactive youngster. One by one the youngsters arrive into the classroom, Grant sat upon his small chair. Due to his heavy weight, he accidently broke the chair. Miss Fowl quickly came to Grant's aid, arranging for another special strong chair to arrive, for poor weeping Grant.Soon a new pet arrives at Jungle School - it is a worm. There are, much more adventures and fun to come within our Jungle School.

Ali's Prison Shop is the diary of a young woman named Malika who is faced with the difficult decision of deciding where her cultural loyalties lie. Malika considers herself entirely English and thinks her parents Asian culture is old-fashioned and restrictive. She and her siblings (two sisters and a brother) are the only Asian children in their school and they live in a wholly English area in Manchester in the early 1970s. This diary is mostly based around true happenings. Ups and downs, some funny some serious. Malika's father, Mr Ali buys a small convenience store which quickly becomes his pride and joy. At first, Malika thinks of the shop as a novelty and enjoys the passing custom, however, she slowly grows to resent the shop, she feels as though it's more of a prison. Malika decides to get married, to escape the pressures of life in her Dads shop.