Saadia Faruqi

Gebundenes Buch

The Partition Project

Beschreibung

"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 a subject for her documentary, the two of them start talking--about Dadi's childhood in northern India, and about the Partition that forced her to leave her home and relocate to the newly created Pakistan"--

Autor

Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American writer and interfaith activist. She is the author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Saving Sunshine, the popular early-reader series Yasmin, and the middle grade novels The Strongest Heart, A Thousand Questions, Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero, and The Partition Project and the coauthor of the middle grade novel A Place at the Table as well as The Wonders We Seek: Thirty Incredible Muslims Who Helped Shape the World. She was profiled in O magazine as a woman making a difference in her community and serves as editor in chief of Blue Minaret, a magazine for Muslim art, poetry, and prose. She resides in Houston, Texas, with her family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 145mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780063115811
• ISBN-10: 0063115816
• Artikelnr.: 68279390