Alan Gratz Books

Josef flieht 1938 aus Nazideutschland und muss eine Odyssee auf dem Meer mit der MS St. Louis erleiden. Isabel verlässt 1994 mit ihrer Familie ein von Unruhen erschüttertes Kuba. Mahmoud flüchtet 2015 mit seinen Eltern aus Syrien. Ihnen allen gemein ist die Flucht über das endlose Meer, traumatische Erlebnisse und familiärer Zusammenhalt, Verluste und Hoffnung. Refugee nimmt sich der großen Themen von Flucht und Vertreibung an. Ein zeitloses Buch und gleichzeitig hochaktuell! 3 Jahrzehnte, drei Fluchtpunkte, drei Zielländer – ideal, um den Wechsel von Perspektiven zu üben Alan Gratz wurde mit der deutschen Ausgabe von Refugee für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2021 nominiert. Sein Buch erhielt außerdem 2021 den 50. Jugendliteraturpreis Buxtehuder Bulle.

You're never too young to fight censorship!It all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler from the school library. Mrs. Jones, the librarian, told her the bad news: the book was banned! Just because a classmate's mom thought it wasn't appropriate for kids to read.

Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth. But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. Michael despises everything the Nazis stand for. But he joins in the Hitler Youth's horrific games and book burnings, playing the part so he can gain insider knowledge. When Michael learns about Projekt 1065, a secret Nazi war mission, things get even more complicated. He must prove his loyalty to the Hitler Youth at all costs - even if it means risking everything he cares about. Including...his own life.--Backcover.

In time for the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, master storyteller Alan Gratz (Refugee) delivers a pulse-pounding and unforgettable take on history and hope, revenge and fear - and the stunning links between the past and present.

6 December 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley live in paradise. Their dads are Navy officers stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaiiand the boys have a front-row view of the huge battleships and thesparkling water. But on 7 December 1941, everything explodes...

It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki and Ray are on opposite sides, each fighting to survive. But then the two of them collide in the middle of battle... Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, returns with this high-octane story of how hope and redemption can tie us together.

Fire. Flood. Ice. Three natural disasters. Akira, Owen, and Natalie are all swept up in the global effects of climate change, each struggling to survive their individual disasters. But the three kids are more deeply connected than they could ever imagine, in ways that can change the world.

Kirk and Bones team up to find the source of a terrorist attack again Starfleet Academy, with prime suspects ranging from one of the visiting Varkolak to a member of an Academy secret society dedicated to erasing threats to the Federation.

18-year-old Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter a threat like none they've ever seen - a Ghost Army číst celé

Denmark, Tennessee, stinks. The smell hits Horatio Wilkes the moment he pulls into town to visit his best friend, Hamilton Prince. And it's not just the paper plant and the polluted river that's stinking up Denmark: Hamilton's father has been poisoned and the killer is still at large. Why? Because nobody believes that Rex Prince was murdered. Nobody except Horatio and Hamilton. Now they need to find the killer, but it won't be easy. It seems like everyone in Denmark is a suspect. Motive, means, opportunity--they all have them. But who among them has committed murder most foul?

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-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library--by starting her own illegal locker library! It all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favorite book in the whole world, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , from the school library. That's when Mrs. Jones, the librarian, told her the bad news: her favorite book was banned! All because a classmate's mom thought the book wasn't appropriate for kids to read. Amy Anne decides to fight back by starting a secret banned books library out of her locker. Soon, she finds herself on the front line of an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to decide what she and her fellow students can read. Reminiscent of the classic novel Frindle by Andrew Clements for its inspiring message, Ban This Book is a love letter to the written word and its power to give kids a voice. - Ban This Book is absolutely brilliant and belongs on the shelves of every library in the multiverse.---Lauren Myracle, author of the bestselling Internet Girls series, the most challenged books of 2009 and 2011

Was tun, wenn ›Harry Potter‹ und ›Alice im Wunderland‹ verboten werden? Amy liebt Bücher über alles und verbringt fast ihre gesamte Freizeit in der Schulbibliothek. Doch dann wird daraus ausgerechnet ihr Lieblingsbuch verbannt. Angeblich ist es unmoralisch und respektlos. Amy kann es nicht fassen und gründet – als immer mehr Bücher aus der Bibliothek verschwinden – kurzerhand mit ihren Freunden die G. S. B.: die Geheime Schließfach-Bibliothek. Gemeinsam wehren sich die Kinder gegen die Erwachsenen, denn niemand soll ihnen vorschreiben, was sie lesen dürfen!