Joan Schoettler Grade Level: 4th-7th grade In 1920, eight-year-old Bedros fled Armenia with his young sisters, grandmother, and uncle to escape the Turkish soldiers invading their town. But in the confusion, Bedros lost sight of the adults and was left…
by Chris Bohjalian Grade Level: Tenth Grade to Adult In The Sandcastle Girls, Bohjalian creates an intergenerational tale firmly founded in the history of the Armenian Genocide. His characters take the reader back in time to Syria, and he recreates…
by Maral Boyadjian Grade Level: Ninth grade to Adult Set in the Ottoman Empire in late summer of 1913, As the Poppies Bloomed tells the story of young lovers Anno and Daron, who fall in love as their Armenian village,…
by Dana Walrath Grade Level: Eighth Grade to Adult Like Water on Stone by Dana Walrath is a fictional account of the Armenian genocide. This novel in verse recounts the flight to America of three Armenian children after the Ottoman…
by Adam Bagdasarian Grade Level: Ninth to Twelfth Grade Brutally vivid, Adam Bagdasarian’s Forgotten Fire is based on the experiences of his great-uncle during the Armenian Holocaust. The abhorrent events of the genocide that Bagdasarian describes are almost unbearable, yet…
by Micheline Aharonian Marcom Grade Level: Eleventh Grade to Adult Marcom weaves the fates of five individuals caught in the riptide of the Armenian genocide. The stories loop and twist together with poetic language that will stay with the reader…
by Nancy Kricorian Grade Level: Eleventh Grade to Adult This book starts in a suburb of Boston with the passing of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly grandmother whose history remains obscure to her family. The story traces back to Zabelle’s adolescence…
by David Kherdian Grade Level: Eighth to Tenth Grade David Kherdian tells his mother’s story of survival of the Armenian genocide in her voice. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a caring and prosperous family. In 1915, the Turkish government…
