Veera Hiranandani
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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.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court decision of "Loving v. Virginia," making it illegal to ban interracial marriages in the United States, twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life changes forever when her older sister elopes with an Indian man and flees their strict Jewish family for Bohemian 1960s New York City. As her family's Connecticut bakery falls on hard finances, and after doctors tell her she has a learning disability, Ariel finds her life changing...
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When Sonia's father loses his job and she must move from her small, supportive private school to a public middle school, the half-Jewish half-Indian sixth-grader experiences culture shock as she tries to navigate the school's unfamiliar social scene, and after her father is diagnosed with clinical depression, she finds herself becoming even more confused about herself and her family.