By:
Ruta Sepetys
Grade Level:
In Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (2011), Lina is a fifteen-year-old girl who is faced with problems that many adolescents face in regards to creating their own self-concept. Lina’s family is separated from her father and deported to an unknown location. She is starving and many times throughout the novel she is forced to ask herself if a meal is worth compromising what she believes.