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The night diary

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.

Main Author: Hiranandani, Veera (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]
Subjects:
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Diary fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary: Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Item Description: Maps on endpapers.
Physical Description: 264 pages : maps ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780735228511
0735228515
Author Notes: Veera Hiranandani, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Night Diary , earned her MFA in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Whole Story of Half a Girl , a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asia Book Award finalist, and How to Find What You're Not Looking For , winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the New York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she now teaches in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA Program at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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