Ruta Sepetys [or Rūta
Šepetys] gained an amazing amount of praise for her first book which was
inspired by her own family's history. Her second book will be coming
out in 2013,
BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAYby Ruta Sepetys
**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** School Library Journal
**Starred Review** Booklist
15 year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are sent to Siberia. Only her secretly created art and the hope that one day she might be be reunited with her father keeps her going. Graphic violence. (YA)
Word Count: 64,750
Page Count: 368
Accelerated Reading level: 3.6 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 142569
- Publisher: Speak
- ISBN-10: 014242059X
- sample pages available
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It’s
1950. The French Quarter. 17 yo Josie is known amongst the locals as
the daughter of a brothel prostitute; but she has aspirations. She
devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves
Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge all of her
allegiances. To her mother. To Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on
Conti Street. And to herself.
Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in with a quest for truth and lures with temptation at every turn.
Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in with a quest for truth and lures with temptation at every turn.
- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Philomel........... (February 12, 2013)
- ISBN-10: 039925692X
