CLA 2006 Book of the Year for Children nomination for Aram!

Todd Kyle, librarian extraordinaire, emailed yesterday to let me know that Aram’s Choice has been nominated for the Canadian Library Association’s 2006 Book of the Year for Children Award!!
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I am thrilled to be nominated!! It is wonderful to be amid such stellar company.

My prediction is that Tim Wynne-Jones will win.

Author: Marsha

I write historical fiction, mostly from the perspective of young people who are thrust in the midst of war.

16 thoughts on “CLA 2006 Book of the Year for Children nomination for Aram!”

  5. And my prediction is…..

    …that Marsha will win!

    Congratulations on this great nod.

    I received the news of your nomination form a friend in Canada; and I and the entire Armenian community in California are truly thrilled. Based on a wonderful review of your story that I read, I am convinced that you will touch enough hearts to come away on top.

    I am just curious as to how you happened onto this subject matter?

    With warmest regards & best of luck…

    ~Ara
    ara.gregorian@gmail.com

    1. Re: And my prediction is…..

      Thank you, Ara!

      I happened upon the story of the Georgetown Boys in the late 1980s while I was a freelance writer for a local historical magazine. Carl Georgian, the son of a Georgetown Boy, is a friend of mine and he told me about his father’s experiences and I wrote an article about it way back then. But then the story stuck in my head and I spent the next decades researching the Armenian Genocide. In addition to Aram’s Choice, I’ve written Nobody’s Child and The Hunger, both young adult novels set during the Genocide. This fall, Call Me Aram is coming out, and in the spring of 2008, the sequel to Nobody’s Child is coming out. It’s called Daughter of War and is set during 1918 and 1923.

  6. As an Armenian-American born of that immigrant generation of 1915 I congratulate you Marsha on this deserved achievement. We drove from outside Detroit to attend your talk at the Cambridge Armenian Comm. Center and have your book in my possession. It will someday be read to my two grandsons ages 2 and eight weeks. Muriel Wood did outstanding illustrations. Because of you Carl has become a friend. I write for The Armenian Weekly in Boston and I have referenced your book to the Armenian Day School there. Betty Apigian Kessel

    1. Hi Betty!

      Thank you so much for your lovely message! I remember chatting with you at the Cambridge event. And if you like Muriel’s paintings for Aram’s Choice, wait until you see Call Me Aram. It is beautiful too.

  8. CLA 2006 Book of the Year for Children nomination for Aram!

    Marsha! Congratulations!
    God is Love and Just.
    You are indirectly helping the world to move toward Justice
    and …”We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for one another” (I John 3:16)

    Wishing you success!

    Sebouh

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