THE LOST YEAR - A SURVIVAL STORY OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE (NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST)

*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 terriblefamine 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 hisstress 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.