Title: The night diary
Description: 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.
Subjects: Families, Partition of India (1947) fast (OCoLC)fst01353944, Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration, Hindus, Muslims, Refugees, History, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Refugees, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Family life, fiction, Muslims, fiction, India, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:700, lexile_range:701-800, age:min:10, age:max:12, grade:min:3, grade:max:7, Social Themes, Emigration & Immigration, Partition of India (1947) fast (OCoLC)fst01353944 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01353944
Places: India
Time periods: 1947-, Partition, 1947