The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

David Kherdian. Beech Tree Paperback Book, $6.99 (238pp) ISBN 978-0-688-14425-8

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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