{"product_id":"9781250909305","title":"The Lost Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Jane AddamsPeace Association Children's Book Award Finalist - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ALSC Notable Children's Book - A Notable Social Studies Trade Book - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NYPL Best Book for Kids - A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year - An Evanston Public Library Great Book for Kids - An Indiana Young Hoosier Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A National Book Award Finalist*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNowhere Boy -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecalled \"a resistance novel for our times\" by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecomes 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThirteen-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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Year\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Shades of Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Alan Gratz's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefugee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marsh, Katherine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47666236686590,"sku":"9781250909305","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/The_Lost_Year.png?v=1767734056","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781250909305","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}