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The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

AUTHOR: David Kherdian
ISBN: 068814425X
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The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
- Book Review, by David Kherdian

From Publishers Weekly
ISBN 0-688-14425-X This Newbery Honor book tells the affecting tale of the author's mother and her family were driven from their home in Turkey in 1915. Ages 11-up. (Aug.) qCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description

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.

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A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish govennment deported its Armenian population.

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Book Review

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
- Book Reviews, by David Kherdian

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

ANNOTATION

A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish govennment deported its Armenian population.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Turkey's pre-World War I `final solution' to its Armenian minority [is recounted in this] illuminating memoir of a survivor remarkable for her unwavering faith in life."—School Library Journal.

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Publishers Weekly

ISBN 0-688-14425-X This Newbery Honor book tells the affecting tale of the author's mother and her family were driven from their home in Turkey in 1915. Ages 11-up. (Aug.) q

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