Stolen Girl

Stolen Girl is a poignant historical fiction novel following Nadia, a young girl who arrives in Canada in 1950 after spending five years in a displaced persons camp. Though she lives with a woman she calls mother, Nadia is troubled by confused memories of World War II, including recollections of living with a German Nazi family and being called by a different name. As she tries to settle into her new Canadian-Ukrainian community, Nadia embarks on a deeply personal quest to uncover her true identity and the circumstances of her past. This book explores themes of trauma, memory, belonging, and the search for family, making it suitable for mature elementary readers.

When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question: who is she, and where was she stolen from.