Ruta Sepetys

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Historical Fiction

• Survivalism
• World War II
• Labor Camps
• Lithuania -- History
• Siberia (Russia) -- History
• Russia -- History -- 1925-1953

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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