Age Group: 12+ Years

Description:

Salt to the Sea is a #1 New York Times bestselling, Carnegie Medal-winning masterpiece of historical fiction by Ruta Sepetys. January 1945: as the Third Reich crumbles, thousands of desperate refugees flee Soviet forces across frozen East Prussia towards the Baltic Sea. Among them are Joana, a young Lithuanian nurse; Florian, a secretive Prussian carrying a dangerous truth; Emilia, a frightened Polish girl with a devastating past; and Alfred, a deluded German sailor aboard the ship they are all racing to reach — the Wilhelm Gustloff. What follows is one of history's most catastrophic and least known maritime disasters, six times deadlier than the Titanic. Told in four alternating voices, this shattering, brilliantly crafted novel rescues a forgotten tragedy from the margins of history. Unflinching, moving, and deeply human. Recommended for readers aged 14 and above.