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Lottridge, Celia Barker

Home Is Beyond the Mountains

Groundwood Books, 2010

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Year of publication
2010
ISBN
0888999321
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Lottridge, Celia Barker
Publishers
Groundwood Books
Edition
First Edition.
Keyword
OTTOMAN EMPIRE ARMENIANS ASSYRIANS GENOCIDE REFUGEE
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

A novel, based on a true story of Assyrian refugees forced out of their homes by the Turkish Army in 1918. "Nine-year-old Samira and her brother are forced to flee when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, barely surviving the journey and ending up at a refugee camp run by the British Army; After being sent to an orphanage, the director decides to lead the 300 refugee children back to their home villages, an heroic journey of 300 miles through the mountains, on foot".