Between shades of gray

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Ruta Sepetys: Between shades of gray (2011, Thorndike Press)

419 pages

English language

Published March 17, 2011 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-4083-9
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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.

16 editions

Subjects

  • Labor camps
  • Large type books
  • Juvenile fiction
  • History
  • Survival
  • Fiction

Places

  • Siberia (Russia)
  • Lithuania
  • Soviet Union