Kherdian won the 1979 Boston Globe – Horn Book Award for children 's nonfiction , and he was the only runner-up for the 1980 Newbery Medal , recognizing '' The Road from Home '' ( 1979 ) , about the childhood of his mother Veron Dumehjian before and during the Armenian Genocide . The book has been published in most European countries and in many other places , including Japan . It has been reissued several times in the United States and is increasingly read in middle schools throughout the country . In the sequel '' Finding Home '' ( 1981 ) she settles in America as a mail-order bride . It too is sometime cataloged as fiction
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
David Kherdian