This has nothing to do with those shades of grey. Former Indies Choice Book Award for Young Adult winner and Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of the Year winner.

Entertainment Weekly calls this "a haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans."

You know about the Titanic, and maybe even the Lusitania disaster (the subject of Erik Larson's Dead Wake). But you've likely never heard of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy of 1945, though the lives lost outnumber the people who died in those two better-known disasters at sea. The ship was hugely over capacity when it sank in the Baltic Sea after being hit by Soviet torpedoes. Told in four distinct characters' voices, that of a young nurse, a Prussian soldier, an expecting mother, and a delusional Nazi recruit converge. Sepetys excels at writing historically accurate, page-turning YA novels equally beloved by tweens, teens, and grown-ups.

It’s 1957 and fascist dictator Franco is in charge in this YA historical novel from family favorite Ruta Sepetys. Eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, arrives in Madrid with his parents, looking forward to exploring the city through the lens of his camera. In the process, he meets Ana, an employee at the hotel. Her family is feeling the repercussions of the Spanish Civil War under Franco’s rule. Daniel’s photographs highlight disparities and lead to uncomfortable questions and danger for all involved.