Sepetys, Ruta

Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys - New York : Philomel Books , 2011. - 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 author's family, includes a historical note.


English

9780142420591


Labor camps---Fiction
Survival---Fiction


Lithuania---History---Soviet occupation---1940-1----Juvenile fiction
Siberia (Russia)----Fiction
Soviet Union---History---1925-1953

PZ7.S47957 / Be 2011

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