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Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Speak, 2012, c2011.Description: 352 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780142420591 (pbk.)
  • 9780329907846 (Follett bdg.)
  • 014242059X
  • 0329907840
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.S47957 Be 2012
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.
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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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