Thorndike Press large print middle reader

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary

A Junior Library Guild selection, April 2018

ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019

Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers, 2018

CSMCL Best Books, 2018

Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018

New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Books: Middle Grade, 2018

Newbery Honor, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2019

NPR Best Books, 2018

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee, 2020

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

Walter Honor, Younger Readers Category, 2019

Washington Post Best Children's Books, 2018