About the Book: The Night Diary
n the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a
poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of Indias partition, and of one girls
journey to find a new home in a divided countryIts 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 doesnt know where she belongs, or what her country is
anymore. When Papa decides its too dangerous to stay in what