Between shades of gray /
Sepetys, Ruta
Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys. - 352 pages, 15 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Originally published: New York : Philomel Books, 2011. Includes discussion questions.
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.
HL490L Lexile Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 74 (high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile
9780142420591 014242059X
Labor camps--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Wilderness survival--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Juvenile fiction.
[Fic]
Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys. - 352 pages, 15 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Originally published: New York : Philomel Books, 2011. Includes discussion questions.
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.
HL490L Lexile Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 74 (high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile
9780142420591 014242059X
Labor camps--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Wilderness survival--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Juvenile fiction.
[Fic]