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The Road From Home

Name: The Road From Home
ISBN: 9780688144258

A Newbery Honor Award Winner

David Kherdian

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 24, 1995

Reading lane: Music History for Teens

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century.

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Why This Clicks

History, Close Up

A mother's voice makes a family story intimate without softening its historical rupture.

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A true story told through a mother's voice
Family intimacy set against Armenian history

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A childhood changed by the events of 1915
Personal memory alongside historical devastation

Book Details

Authors: David Kherdian
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 24, 1995
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Music History for Teens · Cultural Heritage Lives
Reading lane: Music History for Teens

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Artists' Lives
Cultural Heritage Lives
Lives in History
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Music Biographies
Performers' Lives
Political Lives
Women's Lives

About This Book

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.