Marsha has deep respect for the intelligence and compassion of her young readers and she writes the books she wishes she could have found to read when she was a kid. Marsha now considers dyslexia to be a gift that helps her write the kinds of books that she does - about people plunged in war whose stories haven't been told before and from perspectives rarely seen in children's literature. By grade 9 she had figured out better ways to choose books. By grade 8 she had read all of the big fat novels in the children's department of the Brantford Public Library whose authors' last names started with either A, B, C or D. It taught her that reading wasn't just a subject in school, but an immersive pleasure. The first book that she read and understood was Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and reading that book over the course of a year when she was in grade 4 for the second time was a life-transforming experience. Marsha is dyslexic and didn't learn to read until she was 9. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the acclaimed author of 20+ books for young people including her popular WWII Making Bombs for Hitler novel trilogy and her non-fiction like Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival.
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