Like Water on Stone

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 1, 2015

Review

This story is about a family that becomes part of the Armenian genocide in the early 1900’s. In the beginning, the family is living among Turks and Kurds and everyone get along as friends, they even marry between each other. But then war breaks out and things change. The family in this story has to find a way to survive no matter what the cost. What they don’t know is that an eagle named Ar-DZIV will help protect the young ones in the family in any way it can. This story is written in verse, which gets the emotions and events across in such a way, that you know what is going on without having all the horrific details written out. The beginning of the book has a list of all the characters and their connections with each other that was super helpful in keeping track of who was who. I thought this was a very powerful book and would recommend it to older readers.

Overall Book Score: excellent