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 (pbk.)
Labor camps Soviet secret Police Soviet Union Siberia Survival history 1925-53