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

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by **Katherine Marsh** (Author)

**\*A National Book Award Finalist\*  
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**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.  
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Lexile 710 L.  
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### Author Biography

**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.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 1.34 x 8.35 x 5.51 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** January 17, 2023

**Award:** National Book Awards (2023)

**Award:** Golden Kite (2024)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Lost Year

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 4.8

**Point Value:** 11

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