Between shades of gray, Ruta Sepetys
Type
Label
Between shades of gray, Ruta Sepetys
Language
eng
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
Intended audience
HL490L, Lexile
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 12-up
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Between shades of gray
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
746789615
Responsibility statement
Ruta Sepetys
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, MG+, 3.6, 9, 9, 142569
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
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Fiction
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction
- Labor camps -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Lithuania -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Electronic books
- Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject9
- Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Fiction
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction
- Labor camps -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Lithuania -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Electronic books
- Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1