The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh (Historical Fiction)

The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh

Matthew is stuck at home during Covid, just like the rest of the world. Still, it isn't too bad, except that his parents are divorced and his dad took a job assignment right before Covid hit...in Paris! So now his dad is stuck there and Matthew is stuck with his mom and his GG - his great grandmother who is 100 years old. So not a lot of excitement happening around his place.

Until his mom tells him he needs to help his GG clean out the boxes that are still packed along the side of her bedroom wall from when she came from the nursing home. When he shows his GG a picture of her from when she was young, she gets very upset. It turns out that his GG went through something horrible as a child and it is up to Matthew to see if he can get the story, the true story, of what life was like in Ukraine in the 1930s from her.

Recommended for grades 6 and up.