Product Description
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
Author: Katherine Marsh
Format: Paperback
Recommended for ages 10+
From the author of Nowhere Boy comes a middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, the famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable: his journalist father is stuck overseas, and his mother has moved his hundred-year-old great-grandmother in to wait out the pandemic.
When Matthew finds a tattered photo among her belongings, he uncovers a hidden chapter of her past and a life-shattering secret. Told across timelines linking the present-day US to the 1930s USSR, Katherine Marsh's timely story sheds light on a famine the Soviet government covered up for decades.
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