{"id":44577,"date":"2018-10-22T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44577"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:40:25","slug":"night-diary-by-veera-hiranandani-in-school-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/night-diary-by-veera-hiranandani-in-school-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani [in School Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nOn her 12th birthday, Nisha receives her first diary from Kazi, the family\u2019s cook, presented with prescient words: \u201che said it was time to start writing things down \u2026 someone needs to make a record of the things that will happen because the grown-ups will be too busy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1947, the Partition of India brings independence from British rule but cleaves a nation into Pakistan and India. The divisions along religious lines make little sense to Nisha: her father and grandmother are Hindu, her late mother was Muslim, and Kazi is Muslim. When the family is forced to flee from what becomes Pakistan to \u201cthe new India,\u201d beloved Kazi must stay behind. Facing a complicated future not of her making, Nisha observes, \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to understand facts and another thing to understand why those facts are facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

With pitch-perfect youthful delivery, Priya Ayyar is an ideal narrator for Nisha\u2019s evolution from reluctant and reticent to bold and brave. The addition of Hiranandani\u2019s (The Whole Story of Half a Girl<\/em><\/a>) reading of her author\u2019s note \u2013 in which she reveals her father\u2019s family\u2019s 1947 exodus along Nisha\u2019s family\u2019s route from Mirpur Khas to Jodhpur \u2013 proves especially gratifying.<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>: Recommended for all libraries serving middle grade listeners.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Media,” School Library Journal<\/em>, October 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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