Words on Fire

Content Ratings

No Romance

There is no romantic content; Audra's drive to complete her mission and save her family is the story's focus.

Moderate Themes

The suppression of an entire people's language and culture as an act of imperial violence, the courage of ordinary people preserving their identity through books, and the psychological cost of living under occupation are handled with seriousness.

Moderate Violence

Russian soldiers arresting civilians, Cossack raids, and the danger of being caught carrying forbidden books create sustained historical tension.

Synopsis

In 1893 Lithuania, twelve-year-old Audra is drawn into the underground Book Smuggler network—real historical figures who defied Russian imperial suppression of Lithuanian language and literature—after her parents are arrested and she must carry on their resistance work alone. A vivid and historically specific adventure about the power of language and identity.