The Night Diary

"Nisha is a 12-year-old girl growing up in India. But it’s 1947, the year of Partition. India is being torn in two. And Nisha, who is half Hindu and half Muslim, is forced to flee newly created Pakistan with her family. Told in diary entries to her late mother, The Night Diary is everything you want in a young adult novel. There’s history and religion. An empathetic heroine who is very brave (but also sometimes scared) and loves her family (but still fights with her brother). And lessons, about how it feels to be displaced and what it means to be a refugee, unable to be safe in your own homeland – themes that, though the author started writing this novel years ago, are all the more relevant today. (For ages 8 to 12)"