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Title:
The night diary
Summary:
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity... and for a hopeful future. -- Amazon.
General Note:
Maps on endpapers.
Physical Description:
264 pages ; 22 cm
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 4.5.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 8 194398.
Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers,
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9780735228511

9780525552949

9780780418462
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]

©2018
Award Note:
Newbery Honor Book, 2019.

A Junior Library Guild selection, April 2018.
Call Number:
M HIRANANDANI
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