The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine Janik Coat One great role model at

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in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil - before it's too late

The tone of the text is fresh and informal but not flippant

active elements for kids to make-and-do support the topics

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine Janik Coat One great role model at*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