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Sepetys, Ruta,

Ashes in the snow / Ruta Sepetys. - 95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - Level 5 .

Movie tie-in. Previously published as Between Shades of Gray, Philomel Books, 2011.

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.

ISBN: 9780241700549

LCCN: 2019296441

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Labor camps--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Labor camps.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941--Fiction.
Siberia (Russia)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Fiction.
Lithuania.
Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
Soviet Union.
Lithuania.
Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
Soviet Union.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction--Young adult literature.
Young adult fiction.
Photoplay editions.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Young adult works.
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.S47957 / As 2019

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]