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This story describes what happens to Mariam and her family and Kevork and his aunt as they try to survive the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey before and during World War I. Not much has been written for children and young adults on this subject, yet many of the survivors came to the U.S. and Canada to start new lives. The author states in the acknowledgements that she interviewed survivors as part of her research for this book; events depicted in the book actually happened to real people. Th
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Jul 28, 2008
Lisa Vegan
marked it as to-read
