{"product_id":"lost-year-9798855084580","title":"Lost Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Katherine Marsh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bound to Stay Bound Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bound to Stay Bound Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A National Book Award Finalist*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eNowhere Boy - \u003c\/i\u003ecalled \"a resistance novel for our times\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times - \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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Year \u003c\/i\u003eis perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' \u003ci\u003eBetween Shades of Gray\u003c\/i\u003e and Alan Gratz's \u003ci\u003eRefugee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLexile 710 L.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bound to Stay Bound Books","offers":[{"title":"Misc","offer_id":47888692150423,"sku":"9798855084580","price":2842.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798855084580.webp?v=1781167627","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lost-year-9798855084580","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}