RUTA SEPETYS reading levels

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,


bookcover of BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAYBETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY
by Ruta Sepetys

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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


bookcover of OUT OF THE EASY by Ruta Sepetys
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OUT OF THE EASY

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.
  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Philomel........... (February 12, 2013)
  • ISBN-10: 039925692X