<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 701021642 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PZ7. S47957 Be 2011 </Td> </Tr> <P> Between Shades of Gray, a New York Times Bestseller, is the debut novel of American novelist Ruta Sepetys . It follows the Stalinist repressions of the mid-20th century and follows the life of Lina as she is deported from her native Lithuania with her mother and younger brother and the journey they take to a labor - camp in Siberia . It was nominated for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal and has been translated into more than 27 languages . </P> <P> Between Shades of Gray was originally intended as a young adult novel, but there have been several adult publications . In an interview with ThirstforFiction, Ruta Sepetys said that the reason she intended Between Shades of Gray to be a young adult novel was because she met many survivors in Lithuania who were themselves teenagers during the deportations, and had a greater will to live than many of their adult counterparts at the time . </P>

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