I admit it frustrated me a lot of times, as a 12 yr old girl is the narrator of this story and children tend to not understand the full weight of such heavy situations adults don’t often question. This book is so real, it's feelings so raw and really it's fantastic.Ĭompelling mg story. The ending didn't go how I was expecting, which is good considering how it felt it would end. Your emotions well back up and you want to physically help again. The second part of their journey is just as hard as the first, fearing for their lives on the train.

The fear that drives them to keep moving, find the train and save his family. You can feel the fear when her father discovers Nisha talks to a neighbor in their safe place of their uncle's house.

You can feel the thirst from running out of the water, you can feel how while it's the rainy season there is no rain. The narrator pulls you in closer and you're right there in the plot twists and turns. Their journey is rough, the twists in the story make you want to reach out and save Nisha's family. Then the unthinkable happens, India and Pakistan separate, forcing Nisha's family to have to move from Pakistan to the new now smaller India. You follow them from the boring day to day life of a child in India. This book pulls you in, through the diary format you learn the intricacies about Nisha and her family. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity.and for a hopeful future. 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 but later on foot to reach her new home. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs or what her country is anymore. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country

The night diary by veera hiranandani