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*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-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 Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratzs Refugee.
Lexile 710 L.
Author: Katherine Marsh
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 05/28/2024
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.19w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781250909305
Language: English
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