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4.49 AVERAGE
4.49 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
In the early month of the Covid pandemic in 2020, when the present day great-grandson, Matthew, is tasked with helping his GG unpack her boxes, he discovers a shocking secret about her past that no one in his family besides his GG knows. The Lost Year is a hauntingly tragic story of three Ukrainian cousins who find each other in the midst of Holodomor -- a man-made famine in the Soviet Union that killed millions of Ukrainians during 1932-1933. I loved getting to see the perspectives of each cousin -- Mila, Helen, and Nadiya -- as well as experience our current pandemic through Matthew's eyes.
Katherine Marsh has made such a heartbreaking historical event accessible and relatable in a way I can't quite find the words to describe. I was captivated and devastated all at once. I can't wait for this to be published so I can share it with my students.
ARC provided by NetGalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group in exchange for a fair review.
Katherine Marsh has made such a heartbreaking historical event accessible and relatable in a way I can't quite find the words to describe. I was captivated and devastated all at once. I can't wait for this to be published so I can share it with my students.
ARC provided by NetGalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group in exchange for a fair review.