# The Partition Project

**Author:** Saadia Faruqi
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 310
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780063115873`
**ISBN-10:** `0063115875`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-partition-project
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Maha would rather work on her journalism-club video than babysit her grandmother — until Dadi begins sharing her firsthand story of surviving the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan, and Maha realizes whose story she really needs to tell. Saadia Faruqi's novel bridges generations and history. Nominated for the 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award (grades 4-8), the statewide reading list Maine students read from and vote on.

## Themes

- family
- history
- identity
- journalism

## Where this book is assigned

### Maine Student Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)

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