The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)

by Katherine Marsh

Book Overview

*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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250313600
• ISBN13: 9781250313607
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9