labor camps

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.

Presents twentieth-century American author John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" in side-by-side English and Korean.

Presents the complete text of the 1939 epic about the Great Depression and includes a collection of critical and contextual essays.

Recounts life in Stalin's Gulag prison in the late 1940's through the hundreds of love letters between Lev Mishchenko, falsely accused of treason, and his fianc?e, Sveta.

The Communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 is very hard for fourteen-year-old Viet Nguyen and his family, but when Viet foolishly tries to speed up their plans to escape he is arrested and sentenced to the harsh life of a labor camp in the jungle.

"A fictional account of an escape from a Stalinist labor camp, showing the harsh and inhuman conditions of the Gulag and the heroism of the five unjustly condemned prisoners as they cross Siberia in a bid to reach America"--Provided by publisher.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.