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Krystia's family is hiding Jews from the invading Nazis, but the risks are immense. How much will she risk for her friends? A gripping story based on ...
"Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group ...
Stolen from her family by the Nazis, Nadia is a young girl who tries to make sense of her confusing memories and haunting dreams. Bit by bit she start...
In this companion book to the award-winning Stolen Child, a young girl is forced into slave labour in a munitions factory in Nazi Germany. In Stolen C...
A companion to the award-winning books Stolen Child and Making Bombs for Hitler. Fourteen-year-old Luka works as an Ostarbeiter in Nazi-occupied Easte...
Commended for the 2004 Canadian Childrenโs Book Centre Our Choice Selection, short-listed for the 2005 Red Maple Award and Rocky Mountain Book Award...
From acclaimed author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, this incredibly gripping and timely story set during the Holodomor in 1930s Ukraine introduces young re...
It is June 1941 and after the brutal rule of the Soviets the people of Krystia's small Ukrainian village are inclined to look on the German invaders a...
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler and Stolen Girl) delivers a gripping story about the bonds of friendship forged in the peri...
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she h...
A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way
After being adopted from Vietnam by a loving family in Canada, Tuyet undergoes a series of operations to correct her foot, which was turned inward by ...
Ali, an Alevi Kurd who has immigrated to Canada, is sent to an internment camp in northern Ontario as an enemy alien during World War I, while his fia...
World War II may be over. But two sisters are far from safe. Inspired by true events, this is the latest gripping and powerful novel from the acclaime...
Kat, a gifted fine arts student, is horrified to learn that her grandfather is accused of war crimes and threatened with deportation from Canada....
A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family
During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. Th...
A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
Recounts the story of Tuyet Son Thi Ahn, a girl from a Saigon orphanage who is airlifted out of Saigon in spring of 1975, and finally adopted by a Can...
Silver Birch Express shortlist 2007 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children shortl...
A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival
It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leakin...
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 unfamil...
A Novel
In 1943, ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germ...
Taras Shevchenko writing award winner Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Favourites selection Ontario Library Association "Best Bet for 1996" ...
The heart-wrenching story of one girl's experience at a Ukrainian internment camp in Quebec during World War I Anya's family emigrates from the Ukrain...
A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Friendship and forgiveness are at the heart of this Christma...
This gripping, accessible novel by celebrated Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch follows two sisters as they struggle to survive the Ru...
Marusia and a stork save the village wheat from a terrible dictator....
Disguised as a Muslim in 1916 Turkey, Marta has escaped certain death. If she is discovered, she will be killed outright or forced to march into the d...
A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home
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 ...
Based on true events, this is the story of two young newly-weds who escape poverty and hardship in Ukraine to start a new life on the Canadian frontie...