A review by the_loudlibrarian
The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh

5.0

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5. Historical fiction fans, hit this up IMMEDIATELY. I read it in one sitting. It is told in two timelines: spring of 2020 in the U.S., and 1930s Ukraine (then the USSR) and New York City. Present-day seventh grader Matthew gets his Switch taken away and his mom urges him to help his 100-year-old GG unbox some of her things from the move from her nursing home to Matthew and his mom’s house. GG doesn’t want anything to do with the boxes, but Matthew learns to ask the right questions and gets swept up (as the reader does) in her complicated life history. The author does an absolutely phenomenal job with this one and I highly recommend it for grades 5-8.