Ashes in the snow / Ruta Sepetys.

By: Sepetys, RutaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2019; �2011Description: 352 p. : maps, col. ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781984836748Uniform titles: Between shades of gray Subject(s): Labor camps -- Juvenile fiction | Survival -- Juvenile fiction | Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Juvenile fiction | Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction | Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Juvenile fiction | Labor camps -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Lithuania -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 -- Fiction | Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.S47957 | Be 2019Summary: 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.
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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.

HL 490 Lexile.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.

Reading Counts RC 3.6 16.0

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