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Between Shades of Gray by Sepetys, Ruta is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Between Shades of Gray about?

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.

Who reads Between Shades of Gray?

Author

Sepetys, Ruta

Publisher

Scholastic, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780545486569

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.36 / 5 (469 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14