Between shades of gray
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Between shades of gray
AUTHOR:
Sepetys, Ruta
ISBN:
9780142420591
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Speak, 2012
PHYSICAL_DESC:
352, 15 p. ; 21 cm
ABSTRACT:
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.
SUBJECT:
| Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Juvenile fiction |
| Labor camps -- Juvenile fiction |
| Survival -- Juvenile fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.