The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist) by Katherine Marsh Adeena Sussman He’s always prided himself on

He’s always prided himself on being in the right place at the right time

How far will she go to save her family

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Elementary school teachers and childcare workers will love using this book to teach children about kids with disabilities with empathy

she commits a desperate act—one that rouses Minnie’s spirit from the grave

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist) by Katherine Marsh Adeena Sussman He’s always prided himself on*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 moved in his one hundred year old great grandmother