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I dropped off a few of my older books as a donation to the Franklin Street Little Library<\/a> yesterday. Susan Gibson has already read The Hunger, and reviewed<\/a> it:<\/p>\n The Hunger<\/strong>\u00a0is local author, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch<\/a>\u2018s very first novel. \u00a0It intertwines the current experience of a young girl struggling with an eating disorders with the historical\u00a0tragedy of the Armenian genocide. \u00a0This novel has a Brantford connection which will engage young adult readers that borrow this book from the Franklin Street Little Free Library.<\/p>\n The novel begins with Paula, a 15 year old student who strives for perfection and to be thinner. \u00a0She is a strong student who works hard and is helpful at home. \u00a0She is assigned a project about her family heritage and discovers that her grandmother, Pauline, has a secret history and an Armenian heritage.<\/p>\n Paula discovers scant\u00a0information on the Armenian genocide and as she researches the starvation, massacres and horrendous abuse, she becomes emaciated and her own life becomes at risk. \u00a0The two stories collide as Paula experiences her own\u00a0health crisis. \u00a0She begins to understand more about her grandmother\u2019s life as she fights for her own.<\/p>\n This is a great historical novel that should be part of the curriculum for senior elementary school students. \u00a0In her first novel, Skyrpuch has\u00a0educated the reader about this little known piece of history through a expertly woven tale much like her subsequent novels like Stolen Child<\/a>, Dance of the Banished<\/a> and Making Bombs for Hitler<\/a>.<\/p>\n I personally love to read novels with local references and happened to attend both Agnes Hodge School and Ryerson School many years ago. \u00a0Being local, it\u00a0was easy to imagine Paula running up the former library stairs (now Laurier Brantford) and spending time in the Brantford General Hospital. \u00a0It is engaging to visualize the locations that are referenced in the book. \u00a0Don\u2019t think that this novel is ONLY for young adults, although it is a quick read for an adult (one evening) it is a story that is difficult to put down!<\/p>\n I would like to thank Marsha for donating this book (and others to be reviewed in future posts) to the Franklin Street Little Free Library<\/a> and invite others to borrow it and comment below after reading it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I dropped off a few of my older books as a donation to the Franklin Street Little Library yesterday. Susan Gibson has already read The Hunger, and reviewed it: The Hunger\u00a0is local author, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch\u2018s very first novel. \u00a0It intertwines the current experience of a young girl struggling with an eating disorders with the … Continue reading “The Hunger: Franklin Street Little Library”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,226],"tags":[246,33,35,247,248],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-goodreads-reviews","tag-anorexia","tag-armenian-genocide","tag-brantford","tag-franklin-street-little-library","tag-the-hunger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}