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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
This gripping, accessible novel by celebrated Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch follows two sisters as they struggle to survive the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Maria and her friend Nathan flee their Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town, hoping to earn wages and avoid starvation as foreign workers in Austria, but they are quickly separated and Maria waits…
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Lida et sa petite soeur Larissa sont capturees par les nazis et separees l'une de l'autre. Lida est envoyee dans un camp de travail. Les…
Alors qu'elle a ete volee a sa famille par les nazis, Nadia essaie de donner un sens a ses souvenirs confus et a ses cauchemars…
Marsha Forchuk-Skrypuch
Enough is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
In this gripping story of enduring love and loyalty set against the horrors of Turkey during World War I, teenagers Kevork and his betrothed Marta have survived the Armenian genocide…
Katarynas Grade 10 year is shattered when her grandfather is accused of being a policeman for the Nazis in World War II Ukraine and of perpetrating atrocities against civilians.
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Fifteen-year-old Paulas perfectionism drives everything from her marks to her body. A history project about Paulas grandmother reveals parallels with her own struggles.
First published in Canada as Don’t Tell the Enemy by Scholastic Canada Ltd. –Title page verso.
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Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the…
A companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel, inspired by true events, follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised…
A sequel to The Hunger, this is a stirring and engaging account of an Armenian girl and a Turkish boy during the Armenian Genocide.
Following the end of World War II, Ukrainian sisters Krystia and Maria reunite in a displaced persons camp, where they are falsely accused of collaboration with the Nazis and face…
A beautiful omnibus edition of the award-winning biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way
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Vietnamese-born Tuyet has escaped her war-torn homeland and found a loving family in Canada.Tuyet dreams of running and playing with her adopted siblings, but she suffers from clubfoot and her…
This companion novel to Skrypuch’s Making Bombs for Hitler follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler.
A true story about life in a Saigon orphanage, a dramatic rescue flight from Vietnam to Canada, adoption by a Canadian family, and growing up in Canada.
In 1943, 10-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany. But when she’s…
Durant l'occupation sovietique en Ukraine pendant la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale, des membres de la famille de Krystia sont harceles, d'autres sont arretes et tues. Lorsque…
Silver Birch Express shortlist 2007
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice, 2007
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children shortlist, 2007
Golden Oak nominee, 2008
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A group of refugee orphans escape the Armenian genocide in Turkey and are sent to a farm in Georgetown, Ontario, where they must adjust to the unfamiliar habits and customs…
New updated edition of the winner of the 1995 Taras Shevchenko award
Silver Threads is the magical story of Anna and Ivan, two young newly-weds who escape poverty and hardship…
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch,Jessica Phillips
When Mama goes to work,
She wears her working clothes.
She combs her hair,
She packs a lunch,
She takes her special bag.
I wear…
Van Ho,Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
One day they will send for her, but how long must Van Ho wait for her family to find a way to get her out of South Vietnam?
Now in paperback, the first picture book to recount the dramatic true story of a refugee family’s perilous escape from Vietnam
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