★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ruta Sepetys’ YA book, Between Shades of Grey*, opens in 1941, when the family of fifteen-year old Lina Vilkas is snatched from their Lithuanian home by the Chekists, the Soviet Secret Police (eventually called the KGB) as she is writing a letter to her cousin Joana. Joana’s family escaped before the recent Soviet … More I ♥ YA book, Between Shades of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys