Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch brings this lesser-known, but deeply resonant, historical world to life in a story about unity, perseverance, and the irrepressible hunger to survive. But can they survive long enough to succeed? Known as the Holodomor, or death by starvation, Ukraine's Famine-Genocide in the 1930s was deliberately caused by the Soviets to erase the Ukrainian people and culture. Desperate, Nyl and Alice come up with an audacious plan that could save both of them - and their community. Something is very wrong, and Alice is determined to help. until they realize that the people suffering the most are all ethnically Ukrainian, like Nyl. Alice has recently arrived from Canada with her father, who is here to work for the Soviets. The first book that she read and understood was Oliver Twist by. Marsha is dyslexic and didnt learn to read until she was 9.

In the early 1920s, Dictator Joseph Stalin conceived of a plan to initiate rapid industri.

but a murderous plan leading all the way to Stalin. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the acclaimed author of 20+ books for young people including her popular WWII Making Bombs for Hitler novel trilogy and her non-fiction like Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boys Story of Survival. Winterkill by Marsha Skrypuch is historical fiction, but the Holodomor, or the Ukrainian Famine, is fact. On top of bad harvests and a harsh winter, conditions worsen until it's clear the lack of food is not just chance. Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, started to take control of farms like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food to go around. Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch tells a gripping story of how the Soviet Union starved the Ukrainian people in the 1930s - and of their determination to overcome.

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