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| Title | : | Between Shades of Gray |
| Author | : | Ruta Sepetys |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
| Published | : | March 22nd 2011 by Philomel Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. War |
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Hardcover | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 4.37 | 150609 Users | 20252 Reviews
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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. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.
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| Original Title: | Between Shades of Gray |
| ISBN: | 0399254129 (ISBN13: 9780399254123) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lina Vilkas, Jonas Vilkas, Elena Vilkas, Andrius Aras |
| Setting: | Siberia(Russian Federation) Lithuania,1941 |
| Literary Awards: | Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2012), SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction (2012), William C. Morris YA Debut Award Nominee (2012), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2012) Indies Choice Book Award for Young Adult (2012), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2012), Lincoln Award Nominee (2016), Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2012), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2014) |
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Ratings: 4.37 From 150609 Users | 20252 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Between Shades of Gray
This is an extraordinary book and I am so pleased to have read it. It deals with a subject I knew very little about, it has no introduction and it has the tiniest of conclusions. The bulk of the book is about human endurance in unbearable conditions and it is amazing. Surprisingly, despite the sadness of the topic, there are many uplifting moments and it is very hard to put the book down. I now have to go find out more about this horrific time in our history which I am sure is was what theUm... so I'm a bit torn on this one but I'm going to rate it 3.5 stars. I think what made it worse was all the bloody hype (like with Matched) that made me think this was going to blow my mind and it kind of just, well, didn't.It was an interesting history lesson. My knowledge of Soviet activities was previously more political than social and anything I did know of the more personal impact on people's lives was what I'd gained from German museums telling the story of the Berlin wall. It's true
Exactly a year before, the Soviets have begun moving troops over the borders into the country. Then, in August, Lithuania was officially annexed into the Soviet Union. When I complained at the dinner table, Papa yelled at me and told me to never, ever say anything derogatory about the Soviets. He sent me to my room. I didnt say anything out loud after that. But I thought about it a lot.Despite her fathers caution, 15-year-old Lena Vilkas, her 10-year-old brother Jonas and their mother Elena are
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Rating 4.5 Review: "'NKVD officers are walking by the train with rifles,' I said. 'There are some men in dark suits looking at the train cars.'We felt a jolt and the train began to move.'There's luggage everywhere,' I said. 'And lots of food on the platform.' People groaned. The station looked eerie, desolate, frozen with only remnants of the chaos that had taken place. There were single shoes strewn about, a cane, a woman's purse lying open, and an orphaned teddy bear...'There's a priest. He's
'Now my heart sank into my stomach where the bile began to chew it.' Step on my heart, cut it wide open, rub it with salt and feed it to the sharks.. Or just make me read this book, because this is how it feels like reading this story.How can I call wonderful a book full of so many horrors?...But I will, because it really is, and what pains me the most is that it's all true, that this is a really tiny part of the darkest piece of our history as human beings.You thought this was repugnant?!
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