Visiting Author: Veera Hiranandani

Feb 10, 2021 | Rebecca Moore
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Veera Hiranandani

March 18, 2021, 1:50 PM

Veera Hiranandani is the author of The Night Diary (Links to an external site.) (Kokila), which has received many awards including the 2019 Newbery Honor Award, the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award, and the 2018 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature. The Night Diary (Links to an external site.) has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, is a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, and was chosen as a 2018 Best Children's Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Amazon, School Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. She is also the author of The Whole Story of Half a Girl (Links to an external site.) (Yearling), which was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asia Book Award Highly Commended selection. She earned her MFA in fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. A former book editor at Simon & Schuster, she now teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and is working on her next novel.

On March 18, Ms. Hiranandani will present an assembly to the whole Middle School at 1:50 on Zoom.

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  • Cover ArtThe Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

     

    ISBN: 9780735228511

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06

    Shy 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.

  • The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani

     

    ISBN: 9780385741286

    Publication Date: 2012-01-10

    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.