Between shades of gray
(2011)
By:
Sepetys, Ruta
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/FICTION/SEPETYS,R
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PUBLISHED
New York : Philomel Books, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
344 pages : maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780399254123, 0399254129
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Finalist for the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Award
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
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