Ebook {Epub PDF} The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

The Night Diary, Veera Hiranandani’s work of historical fiction for middle-grade and young adult readers, consists of 60 diary entries spanning approximately four months. In it, the author chronicles the events of India’s post-World War II independence from Britain and subsequent partition through the voice of a year-old Indian girl, Nisha. Veera Hiranandani is the author of THE NIGHT DIARY, THE WHOLE STORY OF HALF A GIRL, and the chapter book series, PHOEBE G. GREEN. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College and spent six years as a book editor. She now teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York with her family/5. Veera's Newbery Honor winning book, THE NIGHT DIARY, was inspired by some of her father's experiences during the Partition of India in Watch Veera talk with her amazing editor, Namrata Tripathi, in the video below. THE NIGHT DIARY was also .

Only RUB /month. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani. STUDY. Flashcards. In the book the Night Diary, what did Kazi give to Nisha and Amil? Pg. 2/3) He gave Nisha a diary that is covered in purple and red silk, and gave Amil 5 charcoal pencils. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani. Nisha is a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her twin brother, her father, and her grandmother in India in The Night Diary Summary. The story begins in July of ; Nisha and her twin brother, Amil, have turned 12 years old and life is about to change all. The Night Diary begins in July , just a month before the end of British rule in India and the Partition, the division of British India along religious lines into the two separate and independent countries of India (Hindu) and Pakistan (Muslim/Sikh) between August

The Night Diary, Veera Hiranandani’s work of historical fiction for middle-grade and young adult readers, consists of 60 diary entries spanning approximately four months. In it, the author chronicles the events of India’s post-World War II independence from Britain and subsequent partition through the voice of a year-old Indian girl, Nisha. Veera's Newbery Honor winning book, THE NIGHT DIARY, was inspired by some of her father's experiences during the Partition of India in Watch Veera talk with her amazing editor, Namrata Tripathi, in the video below. THE NIGHT DIARY was also featured on NPR's Weekend Edition! You can listen here!. The Night Diary is a young adult novel written by Veera Hiranandani and published by Penguin Random House in It is set in , during the months before and after the independence of India and subsequent division with Pakistan, and is written as diary entries from the perspective of Nisha, a girl who has just celebrated her twelfth birthday along with her twin brother, Amil.