Due to more mature content, this book is recommended for children 14 and up. The Kobzars were the blind minstrels of Ukraine, who memorized the epic poems and stories of 100 generations. Traveling around the country, they stopped in towns and villages along the way, where they told their tales and were welcomed by all. During the early years of ...
Orphaned by the Adana massacre in 1909, Mariam and her siblings, together with their friend Kevork and his aunt, travel home to Marash hoping to find their remaining family still alive. Six years later, when the teens face deportation from Turkey, they are torn apart despite their best efforts to stay together. One thing sustains them throughout ...
Embark on this gripping adventure! Aram is like all the boys exiled in Greece. He has survived the Armenian genocide in Turkey and now lives in an orphanage. He can never return home. One day Aram learns that he will be one of fifty boys who will start a new life in a country called Canada. What does he know of this distant land? There is snow, ...
Fifteen-year-old Paula's perfectionism drives every facet of her life, from her marks in Grade 10 to the pursuit of a "perfect body." A history project brings her face to face with her grandmother's early life and, as she delves deeper, she is disturbed to find eerie parallels between her own struggles and what she learns of the past. As Paula ...
Kataryna Baliuk, a gifted fine arts student, is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts, after a less-than-successful year at the neighbouring Catholic high school. But her hopes for a peaceful grade ten are shattered when she comes home from her first day at Cawthra and finds the RCMP interrogating her grandfather Danylo ...
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 in Turkey. Disguised as Muslims, they have been separated. Kevork is living as an Arab in Syria and yearns to get back into Turkey and search for Marta.
This heart-warming Ukrainian folktale, set during the Great Famine of the 1930s, tells of a young girl's attempts to save her village from starvation. When soldiers take the village's wheat, Marusia hides just enough to survive. She and her father share with the other villagers over the winter, then plant the few remaining grains in the spring. A ...
Aram Davidian is one of a group of Armenian refugee orphans who made the trip from Corfu, Greece to a new home in Canada, at a farm in Georgetown, Ontario. And like the others, Aram is delighted with the beauty of his new home and the kindness of the people taking care of them. But adjusting to a new home isn't easy. None of the Canadians speak ...
Among the authors whose work appear in "Kobzar's Children" with Marsha Skrypuch are: Award-winning author Larry Warwaruk, whose contribution "Bargain," set in Saskatchewan, is based on a true story, The Winnipeg-born and -based Brenda Hasiuk whose fiction has been published in leading literary journals. Her contribution to the collection, "It's Me ...
Anna and Ivan escape poverty and hardship in Ukraine to start a new life on the Canadian frontier. As the young couple struggle to build their homestead, World War I breaks out. Ages 8+ years.
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