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.

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