Ruta Sepetys: Between Shades of Gray
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Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both. --"The Washington Post"
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. "Between Shades of Gray" is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.
Praise for BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY:
A superlative first novel. A hefty emotional punch. --"The New York Times Book Review "
A brilliant story of love and survival. --Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of "Speak "and "Wintergirls"
* Beautifully written and deeply felt an important book that deserves the widest possible readership. --"Booklist," Starred Review
A "New York Times" Bestseller
An International Bestseller
A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2011
A "Wall Street Journal" Best Children s Book of 2011
A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of 2011
The iTunes 2011 Rewind Best Teen Novel
The #1 Book on the Spring 2011 IndieNext List
A" School Library Journal" Best Book of 2011
A "Booklist "Best Book of 2011
A "Kirkus "Best Book of 2011
2012 IRA Children s and Young Adults Book Award for Young Adult Fiction
2012 Indies Choice Young Adult Book of the Year
A Carnegie Medal Finalist
A William C. Morris Finalist"
In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. Today it is revered Between Shades of Gray pdf as a work that, quite literally, helped shape our world. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm and Antwerp, as well as schemes for a variety of structures from a museum in Tokyo to the United Nations buildings. The influence it exerted on a new generation of architects is now legendary.
Huther's user's-manual approach is humorous and engaging, with a minimum of technical language, yet the book's message is profound: the fundamental nature of our brains and nervous systems naturally leads to our continued growth in intelligence and humanity."
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Author: Ruta Sepetys
Number of Pages: 344 pages
Published Date: 22 Mar 2011
Publisher: Philomel Books
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399254123
Download Link: Click Here
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