Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Pajama Press (Orca, dist.), $17.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-927485-01-9
In this true-life historical tale of overcoming adversity, Skrypuch continues the story of Tuyet, an eight-year-old Vietnamese refugee and polio survivor with a damaged leg, whose rescue she narrated in Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-93191-5
Originally published in Canada in 2012, this grim novel from Skrypuch (Last Airlift) offers an inside look at a little-known aspect of WWII: the Nazis’ capture of millions of non-Jewish youths, many of them Ukrainian, who were forced to become slave
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Author, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Author, Michael Martchenko, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Martchenko. Fitzhenry & Whiteside $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-1-55041-509-4
This wordy fairy tale by the creators of Silver Threads
is rooted in history; according to an introductory note, the setting is "during the Famine instigated by Stalin in 1930's Ukraine." But the volume suffers from the tall-tale...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Author, Michael Martchenko, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Martchenko. Fitzhenry & Whiteside $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55041-901-6
This book by Skrypuch and Martchenko, who collaborated on Enough
(2000), another tale recounting the hardships endured by the Ukrainian people, was their first effort—published in Canada in 1996 and now available in the U.S. Here they reveal...
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Martha Forchuk Skrypuch, illus. by Jessica Phillips. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55455-314-3
The mothers in this sunny primer all work outside the home (one is a construction worker, another a medical professional, and two more in an office). Skrypuch’s declarative phrases are written in the voices of the mothers’ children, as they...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, with Tuan Ho, illus. by Brian Deines. Pajama (IPS, dist.), $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77278-005-5
As she did in The Last Airlift and One Step at a Time, Skrypuch uses one child’s story to give moving insight into the experience of the many children who escaped war-ravaged Vietnam to start new lives. One night in 1981, a year after six-year-old...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-338-23302-5
In this compelling work of historical fiction, Skrypuch (Making Bombs for Hitler) conveys the brutality faced by European citizens caught between the Soviets and the Nazis during World War II. In a frank, unflinching voice, Luka recounts being...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Scholastic Press, $20.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-338-83142-9
In a timely, hard-hitting novel, Forchuk (Traitors Among Us) portrays the manufactured famine Holodomor (“murder by hunger”) that Stalinists inflicted on Soviet Ukrainian farmers in the early 1930s. Compassionate 12-year-old Nyl narrates the...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Scholastic Press, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-54610-453-7; $7.99 paper ISBN 978-1-5461-0451-3
Set in Mariupol and opening on the
day Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, this grim novel by Skrypuch
(Winterkill) follows 12-year-old narrator Dariia as she undergoes the horrific experiences of the first year of the war that quickly...
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