![]() ![]() ![]() Told in letters to a family member like The Color Purple, the story is raw and the author did a great job of holding nothing back from a 12-year-old perspective. I did not know that going in but, to be honest, I was grateful for a more innocent view of such a violent time. ”Ĥ – Similar to Wishtree, I would guess this book was written for the 10-12-year-old age range. But if you write words and they don’t come out the way you want them to, you can erase them and start over. “It feels scary to talk, because once the words are out, you can’t put them back in. On the run, they witness violence, experience dehydration and see their world torn apart as they know it. Nisha, her father, her twin brother and her grandmother make the dangerous trek from what’s become Pakistan to what remains as India. ![]() Nisha, half Muslim, half Hindu, is forced to take part in the largest mass migration in history as religious tensions rise between Hindus and Muslims when India gained its independence from British rule and Pakistan was born. Without spoilers, The Night Diary is about India’s partition in 1947 as told by 12-year-old Nisha through letters to her late mother. I’ve noticed I tend to cling tightly to the books I hope my children will one day read – this is one of them. Not only is the cover beautiful, but the story within is beautiful as well. Book 41 was a gem of a Little Free Library find. ![]()
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