See below for English description.
Nadia Krawchuk arrive au Canada à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale après avoir passé cinq années dans un camp de réfugiés. Mais bientôt, des souvenirs troublants et des cauchemars viennent hanter son esprit. Elle se rappelle une famille... une famille de nazis portant l'uniforme... d'Hitler... Doitelle croire ce que lui révèlent ses rêves? Les nazis croyaient en la supériorité des peuples nordiques. Dans le but de faire croître sa population de « race aryenne », ils avaient mis sur pied un programme affreux appelé Lebensborn. On encourageait des soldats SS à se reproduire avec des femmes de la « race supérieure ». Les nazis croyaient aussi qu'il y avait, dans les pays Slaves, des sujets égarés de race aryenne. Pour en récupérer, des enfants étaient kidnappés, puis envoyés dans des maisons Lebensborn pour y être testés et soumis au lavage de cerveau.
Stolen from her family by the Nazis, Nadia is a young girl who tries to make sense of her confusing memories and haunting dreams. Bit by bit she starts to uncover the truth--that the German family she grew up with, the woman who calls herself Nadia's mother, are not who they say they are. Beyond her privileged German childhood, Nadia unearths memories of a woman singing her a lullaby, while the taste of gingersnap cookies brings her back to a strangely familiar, yet unknown, past. Piece by piece, Nadia comes to realize who her real family was. But where are they now? What became of them? And what is her real name?This story of a Lebensborn girl--a child kidnapped for her "Aryan looks" by the Nazis in their frenzy to build a master race--reveals one child's fierce determination to uncover her past against incredible odds.
Original title: Stolen Child
About the Author: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch a remport? plusieurs prix et nominations pour ses livres. Aux ?ditions Scholastic, elle a publi? Prisonniers de la grande for?t dans la collection Cher Journal et le roman ? succ's Enfant vol?e. Marsha n'a pas appris ? lire avant l'?ge de 9 ans. Apr's avoir lu son premier gros volume, Oliver Twist, elle a d?cid? de devenir auteure. Ce fut un long cheminement mais elle y est arriv?e. Dans ses ?crits, on retrouve souvent des r?f?rences historiques. Tr's dynamique, elle est mentor pour d'autres ?crivains, visite des ?coles et g?re le service Authors Booking. Elle a fond? le Brantford Childrens' Book Camp. Pas surprenant que ses coll?gues la surnomment ? l'auteure qui ne dort jamais ?.
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch has received numerous awards and honours for her children's books, including a nomination for the Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year in both 2007 and 2010. Marsha is also the author of the bestselling Dear Canada book, Prisoners in the Promised Land.
In 2008, Marsha was awarded the Order of Princess Olha by the Ukrainian President, in recognition of her story, Enough, which described the great Ukrainian famine that claimed millions of lives in the 1930s. Marsha's novel, Stolen Child, received the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas, and is a starred selection in Best Books for Kids and Teens from the Canadian Children's Book Centre.
Surprisingly, up until the fourth grade, Marsha did not know how to read! She says that after she failed a provincial test, she taught herself how to read with Oliver Twist - a long novel that took her a year to complete. Ever since, Marsha read as many books as she could get her hands on, and had a new dream of becoming an author. After completing an English and Library Science degree, backpacking across Europe, and working for an industrial sales company, Marsha eventually focused on writing. After a hundred rejections, her first book was published in 1996.
