Format:
Book
Author:
Sepetys, Ruta.
Title:
Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Philomel Books, 2011.
Description:
344 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Summary:
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.
Target Audience Note:
012-up.
Subjects:
Labor camps -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Fiction.
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction.
Other Title:
Beehive young adult book award nominee, 2012-2013.
Notes:
"A novel"--Jacket.
LCCN:
2009050092
ISBN:
9780399254123
0399254129
9780142420591 (pbk.)
014242059X (pbk.)
Other Number:
499127912
System Availability:
7
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
7
Control Number:
286454
Call Number:
TEEN Sepetys
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2