Alan M. Gratz
Author of Refugee
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Wendi Gratz
Series
Works by Alan M. Gratz
Heroes 12 copies
Captain America. The ghost army 2 copies
Join or Die 2 copies
Alan Gratz Book Series Set 1 copy
League of Seven 1 copy
PROIBITO LEGGERE 1 copy
Samura1 Shortstop 1 copy
Associated Works
Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories (2012) — Contributor — 36 copies
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- Canonical name
- Gratz, Alan M.
- Birthdate
- 1972-01-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Places of residence
- Penland, North Carolina, USA
- Education
- University of Tennessee (BA - Creative Writing, MS - English Education)
- Occupations
- young adult writer
- Organizations
- Authors Guild
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - Awards and honors
- Best Books for Young Adults (Top Ten, 2007)
- Agent
- Barry Goldblatt
- Short biography
- Alan Michael Gratz (born January 27, 1972) is the author of 16 novels for young adults including Prisoner B-3087, Code of Honor and Refugee.
Gratz was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and a Master's degree in English Education, both from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Gratz lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
I'm the author of a number of books for young readers, including Refugee,Ban This Book, Prisoner B-3087, Code of Honor, Projekt 1065, the League of Seven series, and The Brooklyn Nine. I live in the mountains of western North Carolina with my family, where I enjoy reading, playing games, and eating pizza.
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The Assassination Game (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy) by Alan Gratz
Slightly longer than the previous read, pretty entertaining and fast-paced, certainly the use of multiple POVs made it everyone gets a fair share of spotlight.
This story gives three stories of three different refugees in their respective eras. All of them come from different countries and have ha different experiences, however they all struggled as refugees and really gives a first person perspective on what a refugee can go through.
I started this with my kids because my son is doing a novel study on it in school. Then I went ahead and finished it on my own because it’s riveting and I didn’t want to wait. It goes between two stories, one of a boy who’s in the North Tower on 9/11, and the other of a girl in Afghanistan in 2019. It is so expertly woven, and having the two different perspectives and timelines (with distinct parallels) adds so much to the depth of the big picture. I hadn’t talked much with my kids about 9/11 before, but this has been an impactful and helpful tool for discussing it together.… (more)
The book focuses on the story of how 9/11 affects two different children; Brandon, an American who goes to work at the World Trade Center with his dad on 9/11, and Rashmina, an Afghan girl who longs for peace and progress in her country, and who comes across an injured American soldier in her village. Both children are forced to take a very hard look at the world around them; Brandon needs to do everything he can to survive once the plane hits the WTC building that he and his dad are in, and Rashmina needs to decide whether helping the injured American soldier is a good idea, or if it will ultimately cost her and her family their own lives. This is a great story because readers are able to see two very different perspectives on what was happening around them on 9/11. In a way, both of them are in danger, either from the terrorist attacks or their own society, and both must learn to navigate world that's not as safe or black and white as they had thought.… (more)
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