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 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.


Author: Katherine Marsh
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 05/28/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.19w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9781250909305
ISBN10: 1250909309
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Europe
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration, Immigration & Refugees

About the Author
Katherine Marsh is 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.