We are grateful to Katherine Marsh for her time and enthusiasm. for organizing this year’s community book discussions. Nowhere Boy is available in the library and on SORA. Marsh’s talk with the parents, this recording will be available until Friday, October 2. To guarantee a personalized, autographed copy of any of. The boys asked loads of questions - “Will there be a sequel? What do you do when you have writer’s block? How did the lockdown in Brussels compare to the COVID-19 lockdown?” Clearly Nowhere Boy was a rewarding story to read. Marsh will talk with students about her career as an author and discuss her new book, The Lost Year. Ordinary boys like the ones she writes about, can become heroes by being brave enough to listen and empathize with those we don’t understand. 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. Marsh wanted to redefine heroism and simplify it.

Marsh writes about in the book, is the true story of a Belgian boy hiding a Jewish neighbor in his basement during WWI. She gave a fascinating presentation on her inspiration for the book, and all that she discovered while researching the Syrian refugee experience. Marsh spent two mornings with the boys last week, via Zoom. Katherine Marsh spoke to both students and parents last week. A young American boy comes to his aid, and the two boys learn valuable lessons on moving from fear to empathy. Schwartz selected Katherine Marsh’s Nowhere Boy, a thrilling tale of a Syrian orphan who finds himself in Brussels during the height of the refugee crisis.

The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh