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| image = Marsha Skrypuch - EMWF 2018 - DanH-7075 (cropped).jpg
| image = Marsha Skrypuch - EMWF 2018 - DanH-7075 (cropped).jpg
| alt = Marsha Skrypuch at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018
| alt = Marsha Skrypuch at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018
| caption = Skrypuch reading at the [[Eden Mills Writers' Festival]] in 2018
| caption = Skrypuch reading at the [[Eden Mills Writers' Festival]] in 2018
| birth_date = 1954
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| occupation = Author
| occupation = Author
| genre = Children's Literature
| genre = Children's Literature
| birth_name = Marsha Forchuk
| nationality = Ukrainian/Canadian
| birth_place = [[Brantford, ON]], Canada
| alma_mater = University of Western Ontario
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'''Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch''' (born 1954) is a [[Ukrainian Canadian]] [[children's writer]] who lives in [[Brantford, Ontario]].
'''Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|k|r|ɪ|p|ɪ|k}} {{Respell|SCRIP|ik}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE-LRWSTGzE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/jE-LRWSTGzE| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Making Bombs for Hitler, first scenes|website=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=27 July 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> born 1954) is a [[Ukrainian-Canadian]] [[children's writer]] who currently lives in [[Brantford, Ontario]].


She received a BA in English and a Master of Library Science from the [[University of Western Ontario]], and began writing fiction in 1992. Her first book, ''Silver Threads'', was published in 1996.<ref name="Canadian Review">{{cite web|url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/skrypuch.html |title=CM Magazine Profile: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch |publisher=Umanitoba.ca |date= |accessdate=2015-07-31}}</ref>
She received a B.A. in English and a Master of Library Science from the [[University of Western Ontario]], and began writing fiction in 1992. Her first book, ''Silver Threads'', was published in 1996.<ref name="Canadian Review">{{cite web |url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/skrypuch.html |title=CM Magazine Profile: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch |publisher=Umanitoba.ca |date= |accessdate=2015-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207063232/http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/skrypuch.html |archive-date=2007-02-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children and young adults. She primarily writes about war from a young person's perspective. She is also the author of the ''Making Bombs for Hitler'' trilogy which consists of ''Making Bombs for Hitler'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Skrypuch |first=Marsha Forchuk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQr9Cn0GS7oC |title=Making Bombs for Hitler |date=2012-01-01 |publisher=Scholastic Canada |isbn=978-1-4431-1931-3 |language=en}}</ref> ''The War Below'', and ''Stolen Girl''.
Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children and young adults, especially focussing on novels about Armenian immigrants.


== Works ==
== Works ==
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*''Call Me Aram'' – 2009
*''Call Me Aram'' – 2009
*''A Christmas To Remember'' – 2009 -- "An Unexpected Visitor" was written by Skrypuch for this anthology.
*''A Christmas To Remember'' – 2009 -- "An Unexpected Visitor" was written by Skrypuch for this anthology.
*''Stolen Child'' – 2010
*''Stolen Girl'' (originally ''Stolen Child'') – 2010
*''Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War'' – 2011
*''Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War'' – 2011
*''Making Bombs For Hitler'' – 2012
*''Making Bombs For Hitler'' – 2012
*''One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way'' – 2012
*''One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way'' – 2012
*''When Mama Goes to Work'' – 2013
*''When Mama Goes to Work'' – 2013
*''Underground Soldier'' – 2014
*''Underground Soldier'' – 2014
*''Dance of the Banished'' – 2014
*''Dance of the Banished'' – 2014
*''Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival'' – 2017
*''Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival'' – 2016
*''Don't Tell the Enemy'' – 2018
*''Don't Tell the Nazis'' (originally ''Don't Tell the Enemy'') – 2018
*''The War Below''
*''The War Below'' (originally ''Underground Soldier'') - 2018
*''Trapped in Hitler's Web'' - 2020
*''Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars; A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home'' - 2020 (omnibus edition of Last Airlift and One Step at a Time)
*''Traitors Among Us'' - 2021
*''Winterkill'' - 2022
*Under Attack (Kidnapped From Ukraine #1) - Will be released in 2025


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
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* 2010 Woman of Distinction, World Congress of Ukrainian Women's Organizations
* 2010 Woman of Distinction, World Congress of Ukrainian Women's Organizations
* 2010 Calliope Award for outstanding writing and mentoring, Humber School for Writers
* 2010 Calliope Award for outstanding writing and mentoring, Humber School for Writers
* 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas, for Stolen Child<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Current-News?2011-SCBWI-Crystal-Kite-Awards-Announced- |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-06-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709064550/http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Current-News?2011-SCBWI-Crystal-Kite-Awards-Announced- |archivedate=2011-07-09 }}</ref>
* 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas, for Stolen Child<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Current-News?2011-SCBWI-Crystal-Kite-Awards-Announced- |title=Current News - SCBWI |accessdate=2011-06-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709064550/http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Current-News?2011-SCBWI-Crystal-Kite-Awards-Announced- |archivedate=2011-07-09 }}</ref>
* 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Last Airlift
* 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Last Airlift
* 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids: Stolen Child
* 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids: Stolen Child
* 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids, Starred Review: Making Bombs For Hitler
* 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids, Starred Review: Making Bombs For Hitler
* 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Making Bombs For Hitler
* 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Making Bombs For Hitler
* 2013 Red Cedar Book Award Winner in category "Information", Last Airlift<ref>https://www.redcedaraward.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2015_2016_Previous_rc_readers.pdf</ref>
* 2013 Red Cedar Book Award Winner in category "Information", Last Airlift<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.redcedaraward.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2015_2016_Previous_rc_readers.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-09-05 |archive-date=2021-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628054432/https://www.redcedaraward.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2015_2016_Previous_rc_readers.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2013 Silver Birch Fiction Winner: Making Bombs For Hitler
* 2013 Silver Birch Fiction Winner: Making Bombs For Hitler
* 2014 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award: Making Bombs For Hitler<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.myrca.ca/award-ceremony/|title=Award Ceremony 2014 – Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards|last=|first=|date=|website=www.myrca.ca|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref>
* 2014 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award: Making Bombs For Hitler<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.myrca.ca/award-ceremony/|title=Award Ceremony 2014 – Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards|last=|first=|date=|website=www.myrca.ca|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref>
* 2014 Silver Birch non-fiction Winner: One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2014/05/23/author-marsha-skrypuch-wins-silver-birch-award|title=Author Marsha Skrypuch wins Silver Birch Award|last=|first=|date=|website=Brantford Expositor|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref>
* 2014 Silver Birch non-fiction Winner: One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2014/05/23/author-marsha-skrypuch-wins-silver-birch-award|title=Author Marsha Skrypuch wins Silver Birch Award|last=|first=|date=|website=Brantford Expositor|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref>
* 2014 Underground Soldier: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids
* 2014 Underground Soldier: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids
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[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
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[[Category:Canadian children's writers]
[[Category:Canadian children's writers]]
[[Category:Ukrainian-Canadian culture in Ontario]]

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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Marsha Skrypuch at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018
Skrypuch reading at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018
BornMarsha Forchuk
(1954-12-12) December 12, 1954 (age 70)
Brantford, ON, Canada
OccupationAuthor
NationalityUkrainian/Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Western Ontario
GenreChildren's Literature

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (/ˈskrɪpɪk/ SCRIP-ik;[1] born 1954) is a Ukrainian-Canadian children's writer who currently lives in Brantford, Ontario.

She received a B.A. in English and a Master of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario, and began writing fiction in 1992. Her first book, Silver Threads, was published in 1996.[2]

Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children and young adults. She primarily writes about war from a young person's perspective. She is also the author of the Making Bombs for Hitler trilogy which consists of Making Bombs for Hitler,[3] The War Below, and Stolen Girl.

Works

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  • Silver Threads – 1996
  • The Best Gifts – 1998
  • The Hunger – 1999
  • Enough – 2000
  • Hope's War – 2001
  • Nobody's Child – 2003
  • Aram's Choice – 2006
  • Kobzar's Children: A Century of Untold Ukrainian Stories – 2006
  • Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 – 2007
  • Daughter of War – 2008
  • Call Me Aram – 2009
  • A Christmas To Remember – 2009 -- "An Unexpected Visitor" was written by Skrypuch for this anthology.
  • Stolen Girl (originally Stolen Child) – 2010
  • Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War – 2011
  • Making Bombs For Hitler – 2012
  • One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way – 2012
  • When Mama Goes to Work – 2013
  • Underground Soldier – 2014
  • Dance of the Banished – 2014
  • Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival – 2016
  • Don't Tell the Nazis (originally Don't Tell the Enemy) – 2018
  • The War Below (originally Underground Soldier) - 2018
  • Trapped in Hitler's Web - 2020
  • Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars; A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home - 2020 (omnibus edition of Last Airlift and One Step at a Time)
  • Traitors Among Us - 2021
  • Winterkill - 2022
  • Under Attack (Kidnapped From Ukraine #1) - Will be released in 2025

Awards

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  • 1996, Taras Shevchenko for Silver Threads
  • 2000, CCBC's Our Choice Award for The Hunger
  • 2001, CCBC's Our Choice Award for Enough
  • 2002, CCBC's Our Choice Award for Hope's War
  • 2004 CCBC's Our Choice Award for Nobody's Child
  • 2006 CCBC's Our Choice for Aram's Choice
  • 2008 Order of Princess Olga, for her writing on the Holodomor, in particular her book Enough
  • 2010 Woman of Distinction, World Congress of Ukrainian Women's Organizations
  • 2010 Calliope Award for outstanding writing and mentoring, Humber School for Writers
  • 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas, for Stolen Child[4]
  • 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Last Airlift
  • 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids: Stolen Child
  • 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids, Starred Review: Making Bombs For Hitler
  • 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Making Bombs For Hitler
  • 2013 Red Cedar Book Award Winner in category "Information", Last Airlift[5]
  • 2013 Silver Birch Fiction Winner: Making Bombs For Hitler
  • 2014 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award: Making Bombs For Hitler[6]
  • 2014 Silver Birch non-fiction Winner: One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way[7]
  • 2014 Underground Soldier: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids
  • 2015 Underground Soldier: Geoffrey Bilson Award nominee
  • 2015 Dance of the Banished: Geoffrey Bilson Award WINNER
  • 2015 Dance of the Banished: Junior Library Guild selection April
  • 2015 Dance of the Banished: CCBC Best Books for Kids
  • 2015 Dance of the Banished: The White Ravens selection 2015
  • 2016 Dance of the Banished: USBBY Outstanding International Book
  • 2016 Underground Soldier: Kobzar Literary Award nominee
  • 2016 Adrift At Sea: Resource Links Best Book
  • 2017 Adrift At Sea: Starred selection: ABC CLIO
  • 2017 Adrift At Sea: Starred selection: CCBC Best Books for Kids
  • 2017 The Best Gifts: Storytelling World Resource Honor Book
  • 2017 Adrift At Sea: 2017 Canadian Children’s Literature Roundtables Information Book Award, Honour Book
  • 2017 Adrift At Sea: Cybils Finalist for MG non-fiction.
  • 2018 Adrift At Sea: Golden Oak Award shortlist,
  • 2018–19 Adrift At Sea: Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice nominee,
  • 2018 Adrift At Sea: Selected for Pope Francis exhibit, Bologna Italy,

References

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  1. ^ "Making Bombs for Hitler, first scenes". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ "CM Magazine Profile: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch". Umanitoba.ca. Archived from the original on 2007-02-07. Retrieved 2015-07-31.
  3. ^ Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk (2012-01-01). Making Bombs for Hitler. Scholastic Canada. ISBN 978-1-4431-1931-3.
  4. ^ "Current News - SCBWI". Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2016-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Award Ceremony 2014 – Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards". www.myrca.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  7. ^ "Author Marsha Skrypuch wins Silver Birch Award". Brantford Expositor. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
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