My Ukrainian-themed books

In interviews and reviews, over the years my identity has been mislabeled as Polish, Jewish, Iranian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Ukranian [sic] (please add in that first i!]. To set the record straight, I am Canadian of Ukrainian heritage. I’ve written books on a variety of themes and set within many historical eras, always concentrating on young people plunged in a time of war and persecution. Because Ukraine’s history has been subjected to much disinformation and distortion by both Russia and the former Soviet Union, I’ve written a lot of Ukrainian-themed historically accurate books. If you want to understand the Russian war against Ukraine, inform yourself about the treatment of Ukrainians by both Stalin and Hitler. Putin is channeling them both. Here are my Ukrainian-themed books:

Kidnapped from Ukraine: Under Attack

Kidnapped from Ukraine: Under Attack

To be published by Scholastic on Jan 7, 2025. This gripping, accessible novel by celebrated Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk ...
Winterkill

Winterkill

Nyl is just trying to stay alive. Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, started to take control of farms like ...
Traitors Among Us

Traitors Among Us

Originally from Ukraine, Maria and her older sister Krystia have made it through separate ordeals during World War II and ...
Trapped in Hitler's Web

Trapped in Hitler’s Web

Publication date: Oct 6, 2020 Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, author of Making Bombs for Hitler, explores the bonds of friendship and ...
Stolen Girl

Stolen Girl

Simplified Chinese edition Korean edition Scholastic Canada original edition edition Scholastic Canada French edition Wook Portuguese edtion Audio edition Nadia ...
Don't Tell The Nazis

Don’t Tell The Nazis

Scholastic Inc Scholastic Canada Previously published in Canada as Don't Tell the Enemy. Krystia’s family is hiding Jews from the ...
The War Below (previously: Underground Soldier)

The War Below (previously: Underground Soldier)

A companion to the award-winning books Stolen Child and Making Bombs for Hitler. Fourteen-year-old Luka works as an Ostarbeiter in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, ...
Making Bombs for Hitler

Making Bombs for Hitler

In this companion book to the award-winning Stolen Child, a young girl is forced into slave labour in a munitions ...
Unbound

Unbound: Canadian Ukrainian Writing Home

What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada? The Ukrainian Canadian writers in Unbound challenge the conventions of genre – ...
prisoners

Prisoners in the Promised Land

The heart-wrenching story of one girl’s experience at a Ukrainian internment camp in Quebec during World War I. Anya’s family ...
enough

Enough

This story, set during the Famine of the 1930s, tells of a young girl’s attempts to save her village from ...
silverthreads

Silver Threads

Silver Threads is the magical story of Anna and Ivan, two young newly-weds who escape poverty and hardship in Ukraine ...
christmasto

A Christmas to Remember

A Christmas To Remember is a wonderful seasonal anthology for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A real treat for ...
Kobzar's Children

Kobzar’s Children

This unique anthology introduces new voices and a century of hidden stories. The kobzars were the blind minstrels of Ukraine, ...
hopes

Hope’s War

Kataryna Balyk, a gifted fine arts student, is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts, ...

Author: Marsha

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