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Serendib Adventures

A universe by Nizrana Farook

A vivid adventure series full of Sri Lanka-inspired landscapes, brave children, wild animals, danger, loyalty and justice.

  • Series

    1
  • Books

    4
  • Best for

    9–12
  • Status

    Complete

At a glance

Primary creator
Nizrana Farook
First book
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant · 2020
Tone
Exciting, Adventurous, Suspenseful, Warm
Overall sensitivity
Moderate

The shape of it

The shape of this universe.

Serendib Adventures is Nizrana Farook's upper-primary adventure franchise set in a Sri Lanka-inspired island world of jungle, rivers, coastal danger, wild animals, thieves, secrets and brave children making difficult choices. Each book follows a different child protagonist and animal-centred adventure, so the series feels linked by setting, tone and moral imagination rather than by one continuing plot. It is ideal for readers who like fast, vivid adventure with real-world texture: elephants, whales, leopards and bears sit alongside poverty, injustice, loyalty, environmental harm and courage.

A vivid adventure series full of Sri Lanka-inspired landscapes, brave children, wild animals, danger, loyalty and justice.

Primary themes

Tone palette

  • Exciting
  • Adventurous
  • Suspenseful
  • Warm

The series

One way in.

Cultural footprint

A shelf of evidence.

Cultural ubiquity

3/ 5

Well-known to people who know the room.

Sensitivity

Moderate, and collection-wide.

ModerateCollection-wide

Content notes

  • Animal harm
  • Violence

Across the collection

All 4 books.

About the creator

Nizrana Farook.

Nizrana Farook

Author

Nizrana Farook: Sri Lankan-British author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant, The Boy Who Met a Whale and The Girl Who Lost a Leopard (with David Dean on art) — middle-grade adventure novels set in fictionalised Sri Lanka for ages 8–11.

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