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"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter: her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call 'journalism.' As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Raj is happiest flying kites with his best friend, Iqbal. As their kites soar, Raj feels free, like his beloved India soon will be, and he can't wait to celebrate their independence. But when a British lawyer draws a line across a map, splitting India in two, Raj is thrust into a fractured world. With Partition declared, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim families are torn apart--and Raj's Hindu and Iqbal's Muslim families are among them. Forced...
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Kids Can Press
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2024.
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English
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"In 1947, the British left India and re-drew the borders, dividing the area into two independent states: Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. Families and friends were caught up in chaos, with millions of people leaving their homes and everything they'd known to journey to the state where they felt they'd be safe. Author Namita Moolani Mehra's grandparents were part of this migration, embarking on a journey from Sindh province to India....
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