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The night diary / Veera Hiranandani.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0735228515
- ISBN: 9780735228511
- Physical Description: 264 pages
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.99 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Hindus > Juvenile fiction. Muslims > Juvenile fiction. Refugees > Juvenile fiction. Families > India > Juvenile fiction. India > History > Partition, 1947 > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Diary fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | J FIC Hiran | 31681020079232 | JFIC | Available | - |
Veera Hiranandani, author of the Newbery Honorâwinning 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.
