Books Of 2018

Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life–until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along...

Flip doesn't think she'll ever fit in at the Swiss boarding school. Besides being homesick for her father and Connecticut, she isn't sophisticated like the other girls, and discussions about boys leave her tongue-tied. Her happiest times are spent apart from the others, sketching or wandering in the mountains.

Depuis les temps les plus anciens, une loi contraint les chauves-souris à vivre dans l'obscurité, condamnant à mort quiconque oserait regarder le soleil. Mais un jour, Ombre un chauve-souriceau de la colonie des Ailes d'Argent se laisse pousser par la curiosité et transgresse bien malgré lui la loi. Il ne se rend alors pas compte que l'attendent de nombreuses aventures qui changeront à jamais sa vie.