BOOK

Ashes in the snow

Sepetys, Ruta, author, Sepetys, Ruta, author. Between shades of gray

2019

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Subject: Labor camps Fiction. / Survival Fiction. / Lithuania History Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 Juvenile fiction. / Siberia (Russia) History 20th century Juvenile fiction. / Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Fiction. / Lithuania History Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 Fiction. / Siberia (Russia) History 20th century Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781984836748

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PZ7.S47957 BE 2019	1	BOOK	YOUNG