Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Tu Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In 1942, ten-year-old Anjali finds her life completely turned upside down when her mother answers Mahatma Gandhi's call to practice "ahimsa"--non-violent resistance--against the British government. The family must trade in their fine goods for more homely wares and clothing, and then Anjali must get past her prejudices when her mother reaches out to the Dalit community of "untouchables" for further help. When her mother is jailed, Anjali must take her place.
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[2013], Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
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[2013]., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL F WHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Rosalind of the Raj Volume: 2Summary Note: As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
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c2008., Adolescent, Putnams Call No: Historical fiction FIC VENKATRAMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
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c2014., World Book Call No: 954.03 5 Click here to read e-book. Series Title: World Book's documenting history.Summary Note: "A history of the struggle for independence in India and Pakistan, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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c2014., World Book Call No: 954.03 5 Click here to read this World Book e-book provided by OCM SLS. Series Title: World Book's documenting history.Summary Note: "A history of the struggle for independence in India and Pakistan, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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c2014., World Book Call No: 954.03 5 Click here to read this World Book e-book provided by OCM SLS. Series Title: World Book's documenting history.Summary Note: "A history of the struggle for independence in India and Pakistan, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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c2014., World Book Call No: 954.03 5 Click here to read this World Book e-book provided by OCM SLS. Series Title: World Book's documenting history.Summary Note: "A history of the struggle for independence in India and Pakistan, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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2002., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 954.04 WAG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: People at oddsSummary Note: A history of the conflict between these two neighbors that resulted in three wars.
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2009, c2007., Pre-adolescent, Disney/Hyperion Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC SHETH Edition: 1st Disney/Hyperion Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
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[2022]., Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young girl leaves her beloved doll behind when she must make the journey from India to Pakistan in the aftermath of their partition by the British government.
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[2022]., Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young girl leaves her beloved doll behind when she must make the journey from India to Pakistan in the aftermath of their partition by the British government.
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2019., Juvenile, PUFFIN BOOKS Call No: HISTORICAL F HIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 her diary.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical fiction FIC HIRANANDANI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC HIRANANDANI Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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[2018]., Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fiction FIC HIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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c2011., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL F WHE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Rosalind of the Raj Volume: 1Summary Note: In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts. Her courage influences one of her aunts who longs for her own kind of independence.
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[2015], Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Young Maya learns that there is more to her family's history than she ever thought. In fact, as a young girl her grandmother traveled from India to Pakistan during the Partition on a mission to locate her childhood home and recover a family treasure. Now Maya, her sister Zara, and her grandmother are traveling back to India in search of that same treasure.