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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. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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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 while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Lina is a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. She's just like any other girl. Until one night in 1941, when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother are taken slowly north to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to dig for beets and fight for...
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"Junio de 1941, Kaunas, Lituania. Lina tiene quince años y todo un verano por delante antes de matricularse en una escuela de arte. Pero, de repente, una noche, la policía secreta soviética irrumpe en su casa y se la lleva en camisón junto con su madre y su hermano. Su padre, profesor universitario, ha desaparecido ese mismo día. Lina relata el largo viaje que emprenden, junto con otros deportados lituanos, hasta los campos de trabajo de Siberia....
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