Between Shades of Gray [B0809]

2012 PB in excellent condition. The inspiration for the major motion picture Ashes in the Snow. Kirkus Review Best Young Adult Book of the Century. Golden Kite Award winner. Carnegie Medal nominee. "Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both."-The Washington Post

From New York Times and international bestseller and Carnegie Medal winner Ruta Sepetys, author of Salt to the Sea, comes a story of loss and of fear -- and ultimately, of survival. Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life -- until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive? For Ages 12+

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A child's perspective on the forced displacement and slave labor camps faced by eastern Europeans during second world war. Bleak, with slivers of hope, not overly-sentimental."; "Despite all the WWII books I've read, this was my first time reading about the attempted genocide of people from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia by the Russians. It was full of hard, but a good piece of history that I'm glad Sepetys brought to light."; "This is my absolute fav book of all time!! I read it abt two years ago over the summer and it completely changed me... I was an avid reader before reading it, but after I just could never stop reading and looking for even more amazing books. It made me see how beautifully and well written books could be. OMGOSH SOOOO AMAZING."