In the late 1800’s, the Russian Cossacks occupied Lithuania and outlawed the Lithuanian language. Teenaged Audra’s parents were book smugglers who, in an effort to protect their daughter, never taught her to read. One night, however, the Russian soldiers came for Audra’s family. Her parents were arrested, but she escaped with her father’s satchel and a bundle that her mother begged her to deliver to an old woman in another village. The soldiers pursued Audra for days. The intrepid girl knew the woods better than the soldiers did, and she cautiously sneaked her way into the old book-smuggling underground network. 

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