*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 to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.

But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh's latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor - the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.

An incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee.

Lexile 710 L.

You won't be able to stop turning pages . . . it is so stinking good! --Colby Sharp, author of The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection

From National Book Award finalist Katherine Marsh: Percy Jackson meets Wednesday Addams in this fantastical adventure about Ava, who attends a boarding school for the descendants of Greek monsters and uncovers a terrible secret that could change the world forever.

Ava Baldwin has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when know-it-all classmate Owen King tries to speak over her yet again, Ava explodes . . . and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive.

Although Owen recovers, Ava's parents whisk her off to her mother's alma mater, the Accademia del Forte, a mysterious international boarding school in Venice. There, Ava and her brother, Jax, discover that the Olympian gods founded the Accademia to teach the descendants of mythological monsters how to control their emotions and their powers and become functioning, well-adjusted members of society.

But not everything at the Accademia is as it seems. After her friend Fia is almost expelled for challenging a teacher, Ava realizes the school is hiding a dangerous secret. To uncover the truth, Ava and her new friends embark on an adventure that could change the way they view history, mythology--and themselves--forever...or end their lives.

Praise for Medusa

I'm in love with this book. Like the best Pixar movies, Katherine Marsh's Medusa is full of layers. --Jennifer La Garde, The Adventures of Library Girl!Here is a novel that casts young people as agents of that change, while acknowledging the risks they face when adults, or a pack of patriarchal gods, lie in wait to silence those who speak truth to power. In this feminist retelling, girls take the lead while boys support and trust them. --The New York TimesSound the sirens! Katherine Marsh has gifted us with the Greek mythology series we didn't know we were missing! --Melissa LaSalle, The Book Mommy and What to Read to Your KidsA unique and distinctly feminist fantasy series launch set in a contemporary world. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)A fast-paced adventure offering a fresh, feminist take on popular themes. --Kirkus ReviewsA story flipping traditional mythology and the voices telling them on their head starring a resourceful, brave Gorgon. Suggested where mythology stories are popular. --School Library JournalOne of Kirkus's most anticipated books of 2024!

A resistance novel for our time. --The New York Times
A hopeful story about recovery, empathy, and the bravery of young people. --Booklist
This well-crafted and suspenseful novel touches on the topics of refugees and immigrant integration, terrorism, Islam, Islamophobia, and the Syrian war with sensitivity and grace. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed's struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, he's starting to lose hope.

Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely and homesick, Max is struggling at his new school and just can't seem to do anything right. But with one startling discovery, Max and Ahmed's lives collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, Max and Ahmed will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny.

Set against the backdrop of the Syrian refugee crisis, award-winning author of Jepp, Who Defied the Stars Katherine Marsh delivers a gripping, heartwarming story of resilience, friendship and everyday heroes. Barbara O'Connor, author of Wish and Wonderland, says Move Nowhere Boy to the top of your to-be-read pile immediately.

You won't be able to stop turning pages . . . it is so stinking good! --Colby Sharp, author of The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection

From National Book Award finalist Katherine Marsh: Percy Jackson meets Wednesday Addams in this fantastical adventure about Ava, who attends a boarding school for the descendants of Greek monsters and uncovers a terrible secret that could change the world forever.

Ava Baldwin has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when know-it-all classmate Owen King tries to speak over her yet again, Ava explodes . . . and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive.

Although Owen recovers, Ava's parents whisk her off to her mother's alma mater, the Accademia del Forte, a mysterious international boarding school in Venice. There, Ava and her brother, Jax, discover that the Olympian gods founded the Accademia to teach the descendants of mythological monsters how to control their emotions and their powers and become functioning, well-adjusted members of society.

But not everything at the Accademia is as it seems. After her friend Fia is almost expelled for challenging a teacher, Ava realizes the school is hiding a dangerous secret. To uncover the truth, Ava and her new friends embark on an adventure that could change the way they view history, mythology--and themselves--forever...or end their lives.

Praise for Medusa

I'm in love with this book. Like the best Pixar movies, Katherine Marsh's Medusa is full of layers. --Jennifer La Garde, The Adventures of Library Girl!Here is a novel that casts young people as agents of that change, while acknowledging the risks they face when adults, or a pack of patriarchal gods, lie in wait to silence those who speak truth to power. In this feminist retelling, girls take the lead while boys support and trust them. --The New York TimesSound the sirens! Katherine Marsh has gifted us with the Greek mythology series we didn't know we were missing! --Melissa LaSalle, The Book Mommy and What to Read to Your KidsA unique and distinctly feminist fantasy series launch set in a contemporary world. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)A fast-paced adventure offering a fresh, feminist take on popular themes. --Kirkus ReviewsA story flipping traditional mythology and the voices telling them on their head starring a resourceful, brave Gorgon. Suggested where mythology stories are popular. --School Library JournalOne of Kirkus's most anticipated books of 2024!

*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 to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.

But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh's latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor - the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.

An incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee.

Lexile 710 L.

Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage for another night. But when an attempted escape through the stove pipe doesn't go quite as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever.

The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary, and the matron's all too happy to get the girl off her hands. Soon, Mary is fed a hearty meal, dressed in a clean, new nightgown and shown to a soft bed with blankets piled high. She can hardly believe she isn't dreaming!

But when Mary begins to explore the strange nearby town with the help of her new friend, Jacob, she learns a terrifying secret about Madame Z's true identity. If Mary's not careful, her new home might just turn into a nightmare.

Award-winning author Katherine Marsh draws from Russian fairytales in this darkly funny middle-grade fantasy novel, now available in paperback.

Praise for The Door by the Staircase

* Well-drawn characters, an original setting, and a satisfying resolution are the ingredients that make this carefully crafted middle-grade adventure a highly rewarding read.
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review * Marsh has crafted a sparkling tale full of adventure, magic, and folklore. -School Library Journal, starred review [An] engaging, almost cinematic story . . . -The Wall Street Journal
Praise for Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2012
The Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2012 Narrating a young adult novel from a dwarf's perspective is nothing short of inspired. Marsh transcends genre to create an engaging narrative complex enough to keep not-so-young adults turning its pages.
-The New York Times Book Review * This shining gem is a must-have.
-School Library Journal, starred review * An epic search for love, family, respect, and a destiny of one's own making.
-Publishers Weekly, starred review
* Incorporating elements of adventure, romance, tragedy, intrigue, and science, the novel conjures a place and time not commonly explored in young adult fiction.
-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review Praise for The Twilight Prisoner

* Readers should be drawn in by the complex relationships between Marsh's protagonists and Jack's continuing existential struggles, caught between the worlds of the living and the dead.
-Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for The Night Tourist

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, 2008

* This intelligent and self-assured debut will compel readers from its outset, and leave them satisfied as it explores universal themes of love, loss, and closure.
-Publishers Weekly, starred review

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 to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.

But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh's latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor - the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.

An incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee.

From his birth Scott senses there is something different about him, but he doesn't know what it is or how to go about finding the truth.

Stranger Truths...

Then on his twenty-ninth birthday the bottom of his world gives way beneath him and in its place open the doors to a floodgate of pain, evil, and misdeeds. He learns the truth about his parents. About the sordid details of some this country's less savory historical practices while proclaiming all for the good.

Caught in a world of lies and deception, Scott flees his life. Refusing to acknowledge his adoption, his father's forced sterilization and eugenics. He falls head first into the destructive throes of drugs and crime.

Strange Revelations...

But eventually Scott begins to realize there is a higher calling for his life. One of acceptance, faith and spreading the news of the truths he has fought so hard to learn. Once he steps out of that chasm of darkness he knows there is no turning back. He learns to love and share his life with his two children, one a severely autistic child with medical problems. Step into Scott's world and share in the triumph of his journey.

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In her ground-breaking new novel, The Model Male, author Katherine Marsh paints a vivid picture of life where women's desires are completely fulfilled-on all levels, emotionally to intimately. But what is the price? At what cost to women and at what cost to the world?

The Model Male takes you on a mesmerizing journey of attraction, vulnerability, and hopefulness to power, disdain and terror. Each page draws you deeper into a vortex of fantasy, reality, confusion and danger.

Ms. Marsh opens the door to a world that may be possible within our lifetime. But is such a new world an answer to our prayers or the dawn of our destruction? It leaves us wondering if it is safe to trust anyone anymore? Questioning if we are more easily deceived than we would like to think.

Ultimately we must deal dead-on with the question: Who is the real deceiver? Man or 'The Model Male?'

Rylee Brown

The Model Male keeps pulling you in chapter after chapter. Very well written...would love to see it made into a movie with the potential for a sequel. I was caught up in the drama and found myself rooting for the 'bad guys' throughout the book.

G. Sky LePage