The night diary / Veera Hiranandani.

By:

Hiranandani, Veera

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text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780735228528

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

Awards:

Newbery Honor Book.

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.

List(s) this item appears in: Cultural stories

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Junior Fiction	Bayview Library	F HIRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R02692XSLGB
Fiction	Dee Why Library	F HIRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R07648MSLGD

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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.

Newbery Honor Book.

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