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A Moment Comes
Contributor(s): Bradbury, Jennifer (Author)
ISBN: 1416978763     ISBN-13: 9781416978763
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Asia
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Violence
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2012028331
Lexile Measure: 770
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 159203
Reading Level: 4.8   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 9.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Before India was divided, three teens, each from wildly different backgrounds, cross paths. And then, in one moment, their futures become irrevocably intertwined.

Tariq. Anupreet. Margaret. As different as their Muslim, Sikh, and British names. But in one moment, their futures become entirely dependent on one another's.

While the rest of India anxiously awaits the upcoming partition that will divide the country into two separate religious states, eighteen-year-old Tariq focuses on his own goal: to study at Oxford. But for a Muslim born and raised in India, there is no obvious path to England--until Tariq is offered a job translating for one of the British cartographers stationed in India, tasked with establishing the new borders.

Margaret, the cartographer's daughter, has only just arrived in India. But already she has discovered it to be hot, loud, and dull. She can't go anywhere alone for fear of the riots and violence. Eager for a distraction, she finds one in Tariq.

But it's Anupreet, another member of the staff, who has truly captured Tariq's eye. She's strikingly beautiful--but she's a Sikh, so not someone Tariq should even be caught looking at. And yet he's compelled to...

Against the backdrop of the nearly forgotten history of the partition of India, Jennifer Bradbury, as if with strands of silk, weaves together the heart-pounding tale of three teenagers on wildly different paths, on the verge of changing each other's lives forever.


Contributor Bio(s): Bradbury, Jennifer: - Jennifer Bradbury is the author of the middle grade novel River Runs Deep and of several critically acclaimed young adult novels: A Moment Comes, Wrapped, and her debut, Shift--which Kirkus Reviews called "fresh, absorbing, compelling" in a starred review. Shift was picked as an ALA and a School Library Journal Best Book for Young Adults and is also on numerous state reading lists. A former English teacher and one-day Jeopardy! champ, she lives with her family in Burlington, Washington.