Between shades of gray
By: Ruta Sepetys.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780399254123
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
Genres: Fiction; Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.