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Veera Hiranandani's new YA novel deftly handles the trauma of Partition at a level that 8-12-year-olds can relate to

On this edition of Conversations, Veera Hiranandani talks with host Dan Skinner about "Amil and the After," the sequel to the Newbery Honor–winning \“The Night Diary.\”

/PRNewswire/ -- To promote youth and adult literacy, Gale, part of Cengage Group, has teamed up with Brilliant Detroit and Little Free Library to build and...

Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.

Two students received honors for their essays, with one students writing on the Tomb of...

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At our first Book Club meeting of 2021, on January 30, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani. The Night Diary tells the story of a half-Hindu, half-Muslim girl named Nisha during the separation of India and Pakistan, and is written through letters from Nisha to her mother, who died when Nisha was born. Our meeting consisted of over forty kids from across the US, Canada, and Europe, and we were very lucky to be joined for the first twenty minutes of Book Clu...