Home is beyond the mountains
By: Celia Barker Lottridge
Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont; Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780888999320
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Assyrians; Brothers and sisters; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Historical fiction; Refugees; Orphans; History
Description: Nine-year-old Samira is driven from her village, along with her family, when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918, and after only she and her older brother survive the treacherous journey into the mountains, they are conveyed from one orphanage to another and eventually returned to their homes with help from Susan Shedd.

Nine-year-old Samira and her Assyrian family are driven from their village when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918. After only she and her brother survive, they are moved from one orphanage to another and eventually returned to their home.
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