Nisha’s War
- Publisher : Chicken House
- Author : Dan Smith
- ISBN : 9781912626755
- Lab Code : 1854
- Number of pages : 358
- ATOS Book Level : 4.8
- Points Value : 9.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
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Categories: Fiction - Middle Years Accelerated Reader, Year 6, Year 7
Description
Malaya, 1942. Nisha’s home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father’s ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold Northern coast.
When Amma falls gravely ill, Nisha is left to face her formidable grandmother alone. Grandmother’s rules are countless, and her Anglo-Indian granddaughter is even forbidden from climbing the old weeping tree.
But when a ghost child beckons Nisha to sit under its boughs, and promises her Amma’s life in return for three truths, its pull proves irresistible …