Characters
This character's name means storm. She is forced to run when her parents are arrested for smuggling books.
Who is Audra Zikaris?
This country controlled Lithuanian until the 1990's.
What is Russia?
"If my father was gone, then magic was gone as well. I wouldn't believe in it any longer; I couldn't."
Who is Audra?
"I was a leaf that fluttered onto the water where even the breeze wouldn't notice me."
What is a metaphor?
The Emperor of Russia is also called this.
What is a tsar?
This long-time book smuggler who ran an underground school risked her life so that the Lithuanian culture would not be forgotten.
Who is Milda?
The printer that Lukas and Audra use to make books is located in this neighboring country.
What is Prussia?
"Rue was the daughter of a wealthy man, and a very special girl because she could do magic."
Who is Lukas?
"Henri started with two straight lines standing beside each other like twin trees in the forest."
What is a simile?
This adjective means gloomy, depressing, or dismal.
What is somber?
This young book smuggler is determined to keep supplying books to Lithuanians despite the danger of being caught.
Who is Lukas?
This was illegal in Lithuania under Russian law.
What is reading or learning to read Lithuanian?
"Ignoring danger does not protect us from danger. Let me teacher her."
Who is Henri Zikaris?
"There books are their weapons, meant to swallow us up if we allow it."
What is a metaphor?
This verb means to figure out something such as a code.
What is decipher?
This Cossack soldier was determined to destroy all Lithuanian books. In the end, he saves Audra from soldiers.
Who is Rusakov?
Villagers gathered to protest the closing of their church resulting in 9 Lithuanian deaths and many more injuries.
What is the Kraziai Massacre?
"How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their identity."
Who is Milda?
"How could they be so little when one sentence set my heart pounding and another caused me to gasp with delight?"
What is personification?
This is a person who has escaped from a place and is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest.
Who is a fugitive?
This long time book smuggler works to bring books to Lithuanians all over the country. At the end, Audra discovers that he is her grandfather.
Who is Ben?
Lithuanians who were caught smuggling books risked being sent here.
What is Siberia?
"You should have stayed back with Milda. Why don't you ever do as you're told?"
Who is Ben?
"There the fire burned bright, its flames crackling with a hunger for more fuel, greedy in its destruction."
What is personification?
Noun that means a deep respect for someone or something.
What is reverence?