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Sepetys, Ruta.

Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys. - New York : Speak, 2012, c2011. - 352 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

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.

9780142420591 (sc) 014242059X (sc)


Labor camps--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.


Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Fiction.

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