—Alton Gansky, author of ZERO-G and ANGEL
—Robin Parrish, author of RELENTLESS, FEARLESS, and MERCILESS
—Bill Myers, author of THE VOICE
—Jeffrey Overstreet, author of AURALIA'S COLORS, CYNDERE'S MIDNIGHT, and RAVEN'S LADDER
—Jeremy Robinson, author of ANTARKOS RISING and PULSE
The New York Times bestselling author of THE GIRL WHO CHASED THE MOON welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town's famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.
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March 2011
BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY by Ruta Sepetys is a young adult book that deserves attention from Bookreporter.com readers. It's the story of a little-spoken-about series of events that occurred in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, where Stalin exiled people from those countries to Siberia during World War II. The war ended, but they stayed prisoners for 15 years. More than 20 million people were killed during these years, 14.5 million of whom were starved to death. It's brilliant, and I was enveloped in the story from the first page.
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March 2011
It's 1941, and Lina is just like any other 15-year-old Lithuanian girl. That is, until Soviet officers barge into her home. Separated from her father, Lina, her mother and her brother travel north on a crowded train to a camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here, under Stalin's orders, they are forced to dig for beets --- and fight for their lives --- under the cruelest conditions.
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