Binding: Hardcover
Description: * A National Book Award Finalist* From the author of Nowhere Boy - called a resistance novel for our times by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle - grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Thirteen - year - old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely and his mom has moved in his one - hundred - year - old great - grandmother to ride out the pandemic adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black - and - white photo in his great - grandmother's belongings he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past one that will lead to a life - shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present - day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR Katherine Marsh's latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians and which the Soviet government covered up for decades. An incredibly timely page - turning story of family survival and sacrifice inspired by Marsh's own family history The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee. Lexile 710 L.
Title: The Lost Year A Survival Story Of The Ukrainian Famine
Author(s): Marsh Katherine
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Barcode: 9781250313607
Pages: 368 Pages, Chapter Opener Spot Art
Publication Date: 1/17/2023
Category: Historical Fiction (Children's / Teenage)