*A National Book Award Finalist*
From the author ofNowhere Boy -called a resistance novel for our times byThe 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-grandmothers 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 Marshs 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 Marshs own family history,The Lost Yearis perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys'Between Shades of Grayand Alan Gratz'sRefugee.
Lexile 710 L.
From the author ofNowhere Boy -called a resistance novel for our times byThe 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.Katherine Marshis the Edgar Award-winning author of
The Night Tourist, Nowhere Boy, The Twilight Prisoner, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, and
The Doors By the Staircase. Katherine grew up in New York and now lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two children.
Praise forThe Lost Year
*National Book Award Finalist*
*Golden Kil£K
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