Sepetys, Ruta.
Between shades of gray Between shades of grey Ruta Sepetys. - New York : SPEAK, Penguin Books c2011. - 344 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the experience of the author's family, includes a historical note.
9780142420591 8.99 0399254129
2009050092
Labor camps--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
F SEP
[Fic]
Between shades of gray Between shades of grey Ruta Sepetys. - New York : SPEAK, Penguin Books c2011. - 344 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the experience of the author's family, includes a historical note.
9780142420591 8.99 0399254129
2009050092
Labor camps--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
F SEP
[Fic]