The night diary

Title
The night diary

Personal Author EPSB
Veera, Hiranandani

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.

Year Published
2018

Physical Description
264 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Note
Maps on endpapers.

Subject
Refugees -- Fiction.
 
Diaries -- Fiction.
 
Families -- India -- Fiction.
 
Hindus -- Fiction.
 
Muslims -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction.

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.

ISBN
9780735228511
 
9780735228528

Publisher
New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]
 
New York : Puffin Books, 2019.
 
©2018


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