The night dairy

This beautifully written story will give your child the best kind of chills. It’s a Newbery Honor book for 2019 — an honor well-deserved. This epistolary novel follows young Nisha, a half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl as she and her family experience the partition of India.

After Nisha’s mother dies, she tries to maintain a connection by writing letters to her in her diary. Readers are privy to that diary and see how Nisha, her father, and brother escape to the Hindu side of newly split India.

It’s a story of courage, family, and will teach your child tons about the history of the world.