“We all know about the horrors of the Holocaust. But who knows that at the same time, Stalin was sytematically killing and torturing the people of Lithuania and the other countries it invaded? Lina is a regular Lithuanian girl going to school when her father is captured and sent to prison. Then, she, her mom and little brother are crammed with thousands of others like cattle on trains to Siberia where they are forced to work in arctic conditions with barely any food or shelter and no medicine. People all around her die. Others are killed by the cruel Russian soldiers. To cope, Lina draws pictures she hopes will make their way back to her father. But will she and her family live to find him? This book will keep you up at night reading!
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