Between Shades of Gray By Ruta Septeys
Lina is a young girl who lives with her parents in Lithuania . She
is like every other girl her age. But in
1941 when Soviet guards come to arrest her mother and Father her life is turned
upside down. Through the eyes of a young girl we see the true wrath of Stalin
during the Second World War. Through her suffering she decides to make pieces
of art in the hope that one day her father will see them. Lina and her family
fight to survive with very little food in the freezing cold. All she wants is
to see her family again but will she?
I loved the book and thought it was a brilliant example of
the suffering that occurred in the Second World War. The problem with most books about this time
is that they focus on the effects of Hitler and the holocaust however this book
tells a completely different story: the story of a young girl struggling under
Stalin’s cruel hand. I thought the characters were not at all “fairy tale” and
I think that this was really good. I enjoyed how the story was told and the
format of the book.I would
recommend it to anyone aged 10 and up because I think you must have some
maturity to truly understand the book.
By Yasmin Year 8
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