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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Family

Katherine Marsh

Three timelines link a 2020 lockdown in Brooklyn with events in Ukraine and Brooklyn during 1932 and 1933. Twelve-year-old Matt lives with his mother and great-grandmother, Nadiya, and becomes curious about the diaries, letters, and photograph in Nadiya’s belongings. Those materials reveal the lives of three cousins: Mila in Kyiv, Nadiya in the Ukrainian countryside after famine takes her family, and Helen in Brooklyn. Helen challenges a newspaper report denying the famine and tries to bring Nadiya to America.

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Themes
Family · History · Immigration And Migration · War And Conflict
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Published
March 7, 2023
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9781250313607
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
  • 2024Fiction for Children
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