Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399254123
- ISBN: 0399254129
- ISBN: 9780143205418
- ISBN: 0143205412
- ISBN: 9780142420591
- ISBN: 014242059X
- Physical Description: 344 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Philomel Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Lina is a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. She's just like any other girl. Until one night in 1941, when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother are taken slowly north to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the harshest of conditions. Stalin has deported them and is claiming their home as his own. Suffering abuse both physical and emotional, Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously -- and at a great personal risk -- documenting events by drawing. She imbeds clues in her art of their location and secretly passes them along, attempting to contact her father, hoping the drawings will eventually make their way to his prison camp. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years, covering 6,500 miles. Many lives were lost, but it was their incredible strength, love, and hope that allowed Lina and her brother to endure and ultimately survive. |
Summary, etc.: | Lina is a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. She's just like any other girl. Until one night in 1941, when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother are taken slowly north to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the harshest of conditions. Stalin has deported them and is claiming their home as his own. Suffering abuse both physical and emotional, Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously -- and at a great personal risk -- documenting events by drawing. She imbeds clues in her art of their location and secretly passes them along, attempting to contact her father, hoping the drawings will eventually make their way to his prison camp. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years, covering 6,500 miles. Many lives were lost, but it was their incredible strength, love, and hope that allowed Lina and her brother to endure and ultimately survive. 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: | 490 Lexile. 012-up. |
Awards Note: | Morris Debut Award Finalist, 2012. |
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Genre: | Young adult fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Historical fiction. |
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- 40 of 41 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 41 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Guilford Smith Library - South Windham | YA SEP (Text) | 34059121592980 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | YA FIC SEP (Text) | 34055129810721 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | YA SEPETYS, RUTA (historical fiction) (Text) | 34037121606125 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | YA FIC SEPETYS, RUTA (Text) | 34027123902911 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | YA FIC SEP (Text) | 33430000886150 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Library Association - Kent | Y SEP (Text) | 33410116701089 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Killingly Library | YA/F Sep (Text) | 34040121629204 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | YA FIC SEP (Text) | 33420145143021 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | YA Sep (Text) | 33620116222189 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | SEPETYS Ruta (Text) | 34013077107541 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |