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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend disappears in the summer of 1942, Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a member of the militia and other other forced to live in Leningrad's tunnels.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lina is a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. She's just like any other girl. Until one night in 1941, 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 train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother are taken slowly north to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to dig for beets and fight for...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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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