Includes discussion questions (pages 345-348), author interview (pages 349-352), and excerpt from the author's Salt to the sea.
Summary:
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp and Lena must fight for her life, all the while vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
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