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This epistolary tale takes place during the Partition of India. A family find itself on the wrong side of the divide and must make a long and dangerous journey to flee their home in what is now Pakistan. Half-Muslim (maternal side), half-Hindu (paternal side) 12-year-old Nisha details her plight in her diary addressed to her mother who died during Nisha and her twin brother Amil's birth. Beautifully-written, this story gives you all of the feels. I read this one to my 11-year-old; he loved it as
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