Fifteen-year-old half Hindu, half Sikh Maya, having traveled from Canada to New Delhi to put her mother's ashes in their final resting place, finds herself in the middle of chaos after Indira Gandhi is assassinated and must disguise her identity and rely on a boy she just met in order to be reunited with her father and remain safe.
year: 2011, 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: gandhi, indira, 1917-1984, assassination, juvenile fiction, fiction, love, fiction, novels in verse, new delhi (india), juvenile fiction, fiction, children of interfaith marriage, children of suicide victims, canadians, india, mute persons, bildungsromans, india
Editions
Ostlere, Cathy
Razorbill (2011)
Fifteen-year-old half Hindu, half Sikh Maya, having traveled from Canada to New Delhi to put her mother's ashes in their final resting place, finds herself in the middle of chaos after Indira Gandhi is assassinated and must disguise her identity and rely on a boy she just met in order to be reunited with her father and remain safe.
Schools: 14
Ostlere, Cathy
Razorbill (2012)
On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.
Schools: 3