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    The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

    By David Kherdian

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    David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061974021
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    David Kherdian

    David Kherdian is the author of over 30 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His book The Road From Home was nominated for the National Book Award, and he has also won the Newbery Honor Book Award, The Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, The Jane Addams Peace Award, and the Friends of American Writers Award. He lives in California.

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      On the homefront, I'm schooling my youngest child in 11th grade. We decided that we'd read some books together--who says you can't curl up on the couch and read in high school? Lillian and I finished The Road From Home, a Newbery Award Winner about the Armenian Holocaust in Turkey. We're studying the 20th Century, and she'd never heard about the Armenian Holocaust.This is the memoir of Veron, a young girl growing up in Turkey before World War I with her family. As the war approached, the Turks rounded up the Armenians and marched them into the desert. This is mostly from the Armenian viewpoint, but it does bring out the fact that the Armenians were the political enemies of the Turks and Germans during the war. If your child has learned about the Trail of Tears, then they should be able to handle this book. It is geared to a middle school/high school audience. There is tragedy, but she survives.