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Between Shades of Gray (1999)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night 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 and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin’s orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions. Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously–and at great risk–documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father’s prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives.
- ISBN:
- 9780141335889
- Length:
- 348 pages
Genres: historical fiction, young adult
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Loved itthis is a crazy impactful book I feel like this particular story while happening in the World War II time is a story that I had never even heard about until I read a story like this I feel like this is something that really got lost in history hisory and oh my goodness this book and what it says and the story of Hope and perseverance and just completely unending desire to live and how amazingly inspiring that is will really knock your socks off
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