Marsha Skrypuch
@marshaskrypuch.bsky.social
internationally bestselling MG author #bannedbyrussia. Kidnapped from #Ukraine trilogy: Under Attack, Jan 2025, 2: Standoff, fall 2025, 3: Still Alive, April 2026. Scholastic. Agent: Ron Eckel, CookeMcDermid www.calla.com
CUCS Lecture Series
How and why Marsha Skrypuch wrote the “Kidnapped from Ukraine” trilogy
Date and Time: Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12 PM CST
Location: Online via Zoom
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How and why Marsha Skrypuch wrote the “Kidnapped from Ukraine” trilogy
Date and Time: Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12 PM CST
Location: Online via Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting:
umanitoba.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
CUCS Lecture Series
How and why Marsha Skrypuch wrote the “Kidnapped from Ukraine” trilogy
Date and Time: Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12 PM CST
Location: Online via Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting:
umanitoba.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
How and why Marsha Skrypuch wrote the “Kidnapped from Ukraine” trilogy
Date and Time: Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12 PM CST
Location: Online via Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting:
umanitoba.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Lena the Chicken (but Really a Dinosaur) by Linda Bailey and K-Fai Steel. This seemingly simple story encourages kids to choose their own path and not be held back by others' expectations. An instant classic. #Tundra #Netgalley 📚👍🏼#Canlit
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Lena the Chicken (but Really a Dinosaur) by Linda Bailey and K-Fai Steel. This seemingly simple story encourages kids to choose their own path and not be held back by others' expectations. An instant classic. #Tundra #Netgalley 📚👍🏼#Canlit
@sharigreen.bsky.social !! Congratulations on winning the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams!!!
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
@sharigreen.bsky.social !! Congratulations on winning the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams!!!
A satisfying and emotional memoir that will resonate with many readers, particularly high-achieving women.
#Rodale #Harmony #Netgalley #book
#Rodale #Harmony #Netgalley #book
October 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A satisfying and emotional memoir that will resonate with many readers, particularly high-achieving women.
#Rodale #Harmony #Netgalley #book
#Rodale #Harmony #Netgalley #book
Toronto friends, hope to see you at the book launch for Standoff!!
October 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Toronto friends, hope to see you at the book launch for Standoff!!
The Hitchhikers: a thrilling ride of tense terror. An American couple taking an RV holiday across Canada befriend a young couple who seem to be in need. The interplay of personalities as each couple tries to stay alive is utterly consuming. An unputdownable thriller. @stmartinspress.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The Hitchhikers: a thrilling ride of tense terror. An American couple taking an RV holiday across Canada befriend a young couple who seem to be in need. The interplay of personalities as each couple tries to stay alive is utterly consuming. An unputdownable thriller. @stmartinspress.bsky.social
Thank you @sljournal for the STARRED review of Standoff, pub date tomorrow!!
"brilliantly written"
"sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone"
"historically accurate quotes and events interwoven"
"VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves."
#Ukraine
"brilliantly written"
"sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone"
"historically accurate quotes and events interwoven"
"VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves."
#Ukraine
October 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Thank you @sljournal for the STARRED review of Standoff, pub date tomorrow!!
"brilliantly written"
"sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone"
"historically accurate quotes and events interwoven"
"VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves."
#Ukraine
"brilliantly written"
"sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone"
"historically accurate quotes and events interwoven"
"VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves."
#Ukraine
Thrilled to give the final keynote at #CANSCAIP's Packaging Your Imagination one-day conference. Before I was published, this conference jump-started my career. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing or illustrating books for young people. #kidlit #canlit
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Thrilled to give the final keynote at #CANSCAIP's Packaging Your Imagination one-day conference. Before I was published, this conference jump-started my career. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing or illustrating books for young people. #kidlit #canlit
Book launch! Standoff, bk #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. #mglit #Ukrainewar #scholastic #brantfordontario
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Book launch! Standoff, bk #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. #mglit #Ukrainewar #scholastic #brantfordontario
September 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Kudos to #EugeneYelchin for his brutal honesty. Well-crafted, but oh so dark. 📚👍🏼
#Candlewick #Netgalley
#Candlewick #Netgalley
September 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Kudos to #EugeneYelchin for his brutal honesty. Well-crafted, but oh so dark. 📚👍🏼
#Candlewick #Netgalley
#Candlewick #Netgalley
#RedFlagsandButterflies will be released on Oct 18th. “A tender, heartfelt, and intelligent coming-of-age story that celebrates quiet strength and trusting your instincts.” Starred review. -Kirkus Reviews @cormorantbooks.bsky.social 📚👍🏼#sherylazzam
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#RedFlagsandButterflies will be released on Oct 18th. “A tender, heartfelt, and intelligent coming-of-age story that celebrates quiet strength and trusting your instincts.” Starred review. -Kirkus Reviews @cormorantbooks.bsky.social 📚👍🏼#sherylazzam
Happy #bookbirthday to Chasing Evil. This book reads like a thriller! Perfect for readers of true crime and/or psychic phenomena. #StMartinsPress
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Happy #bookbirthday to Chasing Evil. This book reads like a thriller! Perfect for readers of true crime and/or psychic phenomena. #StMartinsPress
The little quilt is just as charming in this wintry tale as in the first. Sure to be a Canadian classic. #netgalley #tundra #rielnason #mglit #canlit 📚👍🏼
August 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The little quilt is just as charming in this wintry tale as in the first. Sure to be a Canadian classic. #netgalley #tundra #rielnason #mglit #canlit 📚👍🏼
Looking forward to speaking at Bloor West Ukrainian Festival, Toronto, on Sept 13th. Hope to see you there! #mglit #Ukrainian
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August 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Looking forward to speaking at Bloor West Ukrainian Festival, Toronto, on Sept 13th. Hope to see you there! #mglit #Ukrainian
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An unputdownable memoir about a mother who dies holding onto her secrets, and a daughter determined to uncover the truth. #Ostarbeiter #Ukraine #forcedlabor @houseofanansi.bsky.social #halinastjames #canlit
August 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
An unputdownable memoir about a mother who dies holding onto her secrets, and a daughter determined to uncover the truth. #Ostarbeiter #Ukraine #forcedlabor @houseofanansi.bsky.social #halinastjames #canlit
Happy #bookbirthday to Tim Queeney for Rope, a well-written, well-researched, and informative narrative. I appreciated the droll humor and the interesting and anecdotal style. General readers as well as historical fiction researchers will find this book to be a good resource. #stmartinspress
August 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Happy #bookbirthday to Tim Queeney for Rope, a well-written, well-researched, and informative narrative. I appreciated the droll humor and the interesting and anecdotal style. General readers as well as historical fiction researchers will find this book to be a good resource. #stmartinspress
Look what popped up as a #1 new release on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com today! #Standoff, which is book 2 of my #KidnappedfromUkraine trilogy, Oct 7, 2025 pub date #Scholastic #mglit #canlit #Ukrainewar. Still Alive, bk #3 is also on both lists. It will be pub'd April 2026.
August 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Look what popped up as a #1 new release on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com today! #Standoff, which is book 2 of my #KidnappedfromUkraine trilogy, Oct 7, 2025 pub date #Scholastic #mglit #canlit #Ukrainewar. Still Alive, bk #3 is also on both lists. It will be pub'd April 2026.
Happy #bookbirthday to #sharilapena, the master of domestic thrillers. Loved this book, right down to the perfect, unexpected ending. #penguinrandomhouse #ireadcanadian
July 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Happy #bookbirthday to #sharilapena, the master of domestic thrillers. Loved this book, right down to the perfect, unexpected ending. #penguinrandomhouse #ireadcanadian
New gift edition of The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt by Riel Nason -- a #canlit #picturebook classic. A whole new generation of kids will identify with the little quilt's dismay at being different. Sweet humour.
July 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New gift edition of The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt by Riel Nason -- a #canlit #picturebook classic. A whole new generation of kids will identify with the little quilt's dismay at being different. Sweet humour.
Honoured to be giving the Claire Mackay memorial lecture @canscaip.bsky.social. Attending this conference 27 books ago was one of the best things I did for my writing career. #kidlit #Canadian www.canscaip.org/PYI-Conference
July 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Honoured to be giving the Claire Mackay memorial lecture @canscaip.bsky.social. Attending this conference 27 books ago was one of the best things I did for my writing career. #kidlit #Canadian www.canscaip.org/PYI-Conference
Loved reading Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie:
A prominent columnist gives a new performer a vicious one star review for her fringe festival one-person act, and then he sleeps with her. What happens next is unexpected and absorbing. #Netgalley #PenguinRandomHouseCanada
A prominent columnist gives a new performer a vicious one star review for her fringe festival one-person act, and then he sleeps with her. What happens next is unexpected and absorbing. #Netgalley #PenguinRandomHouseCanada
July 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Loved reading Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie:
A prominent columnist gives a new performer a vicious one star review for her fringe festival one-person act, and then he sleeps with her. What happens next is unexpected and absorbing. #Netgalley #PenguinRandomHouseCanada
A prominent columnist gives a new performer a vicious one star review for her fringe festival one-person act, and then he sleeps with her. What happens next is unexpected and absorbing. #Netgalley #PenguinRandomHouseCanada