Рута Шепетис - Ashes in the Snow [aka Between Shades of Gray]

“A book hasn’t moved me this much since I read The Help .”

New York Times Bestseller

International Bestseller

A Carnegie Medal Finalist

A Golden Kite Award Winner

A William C. Morris Award Finalist

The iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel

An Amazon UK Best Book

A Publishers Weekly Best Book

A School Library Journal Best Book

A Booklist Best Book

A Reader’s Choice Nominee in Germany

Winner of the Prix-RTL LIRE Award for Best Novel for Young People, 2011 (France)

A Book-of-the-Month Club Blue Ribbon Selection

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book

A Columbus Dispatch Best Book

A Kirkus Best Book

The #1 Book on the Spring 2011 IndieNext List

An ALA Notable Book

An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten Selection

Salt to the Sea

Out of the Easy

PENGUIN BOOKS

An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

375 Hudson Street

New York, New York 10014

First published in the United States of America by Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2011

Published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012

Published as Ashes in the Snow by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019

Copyright © 2011 by Ruta Sepetys

Map illustrations copyright © 2011 by Katrina Damkoehler

Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE PHILOMEL BOOKS EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Sepetys, Ruta.

Between shades of gray / Ruta Sepetys.

p. cm.

Summary: 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: 978-0-399-25412-3 (hc)

1. Lithuania—History—Soviet occupation, 1940–1941—Juvenile fiction. [1. Lithuania—History—Soviet occupation, 1940–1941—Fiction. 2. Labor camps—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Siberia (Russia)—History—20th century—Fiction. 5. Soviet Union—History—1925–1953—Fiction.]

I. Title

PZ7.S47957Be 2011

[Fic]—dc22 2009050092

Ebook ISBN 9780593113653

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Version_1