Name: The Lost Year
Author: Marsh, Katherine
ISBN: [978-1-25090-930-5,1-25090-930-9]

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The Lost Year

Author: Marsh, Katherine

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Follett Number: 2165CE9
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Square Fish, c2023, p2024
Format: 355 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-25090-930-5
ISBN-10: 1-25090-930-9
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Family Life Fiction

Secrets Fiction

Survival Fiction

Ukraine History Famine, 1932-1933 Fiction

"Roaring Brook Press.";"Ages 10-14"--Back cover. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.

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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-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.

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