Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
The night diary
Call Number
- J HIRA (CEN, EAS)
Publication Information
New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]
Physical Description
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Notes
Map on endpapers.
Subjects
- Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
- Diaries > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > India > Juvenile fiction.
- Hindus > Juvenile fiction.
- Muslims > Juvenile fiction.
- Refugees > Fiction.
- Diaries > Fiction.
- Family life > India > Fiction.
- Hindus > Fiction.
- Muslims > Fiction.
- India > History > Partition, 1947 > Juvenile fiction.
- India > History > Partition, 1947 > Fiction.