Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2015 · Young Adult · Nominee
About This Book
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.
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.
Awards
Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
2014 · Young Adult · Nominee
Golden Sower Award
2014 · Young Adult · Nominee
Iowa Teen Award
2014 · Young Adult · Nominee
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2014 · Grades 6-8 · Second Place
Sequoyah Book Award
2014 · High School · Nominee
Sequoyah Book Award
2014 · Intermediate · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2014 · High School · Nominee
Young Hoosier Book Award
2014 · Middle Grades · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2014 · Intermediate/Grades 7-9 · Nominee
Beehive Award
2013 · Young Adult · Nominee
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2013 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Gateway Readers Award
2013 · High School · Nominee
Grand Canyon Reader Award
2013 · Teen · Recommended
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
2013 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Nevada Young Readers' Award
2013 · Young Adult · Nominee
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2013 · Ages 12 & Up · Nominee
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2013 · Young Adult · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2013 · High School · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2013 · Middle School · Winner
Black-Eyed Susan Award
2012 · High School · Nominee
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2012 · Ten to Fourteen · Recommended
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
2012 · Young Adult · Honor Book
Golden Kite
2012 · Fiction · Winner
Indies Choice Book Award
2012 · Young Adult · Winner
Tayshas Reading
2012 · Young Adult · Commended
Texas Lone Star Reading List
2012 · Young Adult · Commended
William C. Morris YA Debut Award
2012 · Young Adult Literature · Finalist
Carnegie Medal
2012 · Children's · Nominee
Cybils
2011 · Young Adult Fiction · Finalist
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