Commended for the 2004 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice
Selection, short-listed for the 2005 Red Maple Award and Rocky Mountain
Book Award
When the Armenians of Turkey are marched into the desert to die in 1915,
Mariam is rescued by her Turkish friend Rustem, and lives with mixed
acceptance as a guest in his father's harem. Kevork is shot and left for
dead in a mass grave in the desert, but is rescued by nomadic Arabs and
nurtured back to health.
Both teens must choose between the security of an adopted home or the
risk of death in search of family.
A sequel to the highly successful The Hunger, Nobody's Child is a
stirring and engaging account of one of the twentieth century's most
significant events.