Research Catalog
The night diary
- Title
- The night diary / Veera Hiranandani.
- Author
- Hiranandani, Veera
- Publication
- New York : Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2018]
- ©2018
- Supplementary Content
- Lexile website:
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-1511 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 264 pages : maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- "On the eve of her twelfth birthday, Nisha receives a journal - a place to record the thoughts she can never seem to say aloud as she starts to see the world through older eyes. But it's not just Nisha who is changing. She doesn't even recognize her country anymore. It's 1947, and India, newly freed from British rule, is being divided into two countries: Pakistan and India. Many people are killed crossing borders as tensions among Hindus, Muslim, Sikhs, and others flare. Nisha doesn't know which side she's supposed to be on or why she has to choose. After losing her mother, who died giving birth, she can't imagine losing her homeland, too. Mama was Muslim, but now she's gone. Papa is Hindu, and says it's no longer safe for them to stay in Pakistan. And so Nisha and her family become refugees and embark on a dangerous journey by train and by foot to reach their new home on the other side of the border. Told through the letters Nisha writes to her mother in her journal, The Night Diary is a story of one of the most dramatic moments in history and of one girl's search for home, her own identity, and a hopeful future" -- Front jacket flap.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Diary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- Maps on endpapers.
- "First published in the United States of America by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018" -- Title page verso.
- Audience (note)
- 700L
- Awards (note)
- Newbery Honor Book, 2019
- A Junior Library Guild selection, April 2018
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1511
- ISBN
- 9780735228511
- 0735228515
- LCCN
- 2017012579
- OCLC
- 1086210432
- Author
- Hiranandani, Veera, author.
- Title
- The night diary / Veera Hiranandani.
- Publisher
- New York : Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- 700L Lexile
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 8.0.
- Awards
- Newbery Honor Book, 2019A Junior Library Guild selection, April 2018
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1947
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1511