344 pages
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2011 by Philomel Books.
Between shades of gray
by Ruta Sepetys
3 stars
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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.
Subjects
- Labor camps -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Juvenile fiction
- Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Fiction
- Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction
Places
- Siberia (Russia)
- Lithuania
- Soviet Union