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Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan


My Story

No. of pages 208

Published: 2020

Great for age 7-18 years

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My Story: Noor Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor un-Nisa Inayat Khan. It's 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to sit back and do nothing while Nazi forces invade her home and terrorise her people, so she signs up to join the war efforts despite her mother's wishes. Soon she is chosen by Winston Churchill to go undercover into France. Noor returns home but this time as a secret agent. Can Noor keep her true identity a secret, report her findings back to London and help the Allies win the war? Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!

 

 

This book is part of a book series called My Story .

There are 208 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2020 by Scholastic .

Sufiya Ahmed was born in India and arrived in the UK as a baby. She lived in Bolton, Lancashire, before moving to London where she still lives. Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children.

 

This book is in the following series:

My Story

This book features the following character:

Noor Inayat Khan
This book features Noor Inayat Khan.