Between Shades of Gray

This book is set in 1941 during the deportation of Eastern Europe to Siberia. Lina, a 15 year old girl is the narrator, and her voice is clear, telling of the horrors she and her family had to try and survive while being tortured by Stalin's soldiers. Lina is first, separated from her father. Then the soldiers try to get her mother to agree to be a translator for them between the soldiers and the deportee's. She suspects her cousin may be a traitor and also her could be boyfriend. Then her brother gets deathly ill. Through all of these trials, Lina is able to put on an about-face and stand firm for her beliefs, all the while trying to find her father and just survive.