Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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 Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs, she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.

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 has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...

Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death. Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, took control of the farms in the Ukraine like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food...

"An omnibus edition of the juvenile biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way. Eight-year-old Tuyet, whose left leg was twisted and stunted from polio, was evacuated from her Saigon orphanage on the last Canadian airlift for at-risk children when the city fell to North Vietnam on April 25, 1975. Adopted by the Morris family in Brantford, Ontario, she faced urgent corrective...

"A teenager leaves his fiancé behind in their Anatolian village to make a new life in Canada for both of them. But when World War I breaks out, he is sent to an internment camp while his betrothed struggles to survive and find a way to join him"--Provided by publisher.