Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 790L · 1999
Why we'd hand it over
A historically essential, unflinching account of the 1941 Soviet deportation of Lithuanians — gut-wrenching but not gratuitous, and a rare YA novel that demands readers grapple with 20th-century atrocity as living history.