Ready Resources for Educators, Homeschoolers, and ParentsĪn in-depth teacher’s guide for The Night Diaryis available. Global history, history of religion, religious tensions, India, Pakistan, Partition, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, refugees, community A piece of history becomes more accessible and its far-reaching ramifications more understandable to readers as a result of embarking on this dramatic journey with Nisha.Įmpathy, acceptance, identity, comfort, family, friendship, hope, diversity, humanity Readers of The Night Diary will relate to Nisha’s struggles with family dynamics, loss, grief, and identity.
“I want to remember what everyone says and does, and I won’t know the ending until I get there.” Her diary chronicles the ripple effect of a life-changing historical event that forever changes Nisha’s life, causing her to adapt and grow as a result of a wide range of experiences. Nisha’s emotional center is Kazi, the family cook, who on her twelfth birthday gifts to her a diary. Though her father is distant and her grandmother stern, they are loving and caring of both Nisha and her more willful twin Amil. Why This Book? Why will it matter to kids?īorn to a Hindu father and a Muslim mother who died giving birth to her and her brother, Nisha wrestles with this loss but lives a calm, peaceful, and sheltered life. ” - from “Let Us Weave” by Tony Johnston Voices from Afar: Poems of Peace. A World / with peaks of kindness, / orchards branched with good, / rivers swollen with peace. It was also selected as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times, NPR, School Library Journal, and The Washington Post. It was named an ALA Notable Book, Junior Library Guild Selection, and New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick. Highly-acclaimed, The Night Diary has earned the 2019 Newbery Honor Award, the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, and a Walter Dean Myers Honor Award. Readers are transported to a frightening and confusing time as Nisha and her family journey across new boundaries, navigating dramatic changes in the world they once knew and loved. The novel, composed of diary entries written by twelve year-old Nisha to her deceased mother, personalizes the ramifications of this pivotal historical decision.
Known as the Partition, the division brought about widespread violence between Hindus and Muslims and resulted in the largest mass migration in human history. It examines the effects of India gaining independence from Britain and becoming two countries: India and Pakistan. Set in India in 1947, The Night Diary is a moving middle-grade historical novel written in diary form.
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