![]() The teaching points for history are obvious and I'd definitely recommend history/social studies/world cultures teachers use this book. Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girls' search for home, for her own identity. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train bu later on foot to reach her new home. 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 doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. ![]() It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. Teachers, this #OwnVoices middle grade novel (I'd narrow it down as late middle grade and recommend it for grades 6 - 12) will remedy that situation for your students. ![]() But the human cost of that political decision on the daily lives of millions of people escaped me because it was not taught in History or heaven forbid, in English Language Arts. ![]()
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