Alan M. Gratz
Autor(a) de Refugee
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Wendi Gratz
Séries
Obras por Alan M. Gratz
Heroes 3 exemplares
Captain America. The ghost army 2 exemplares
Join or Die 2 exemplares
Alan Gratz Book Series Set 1 exemplar
League of Seven 1 exemplar
PROIBITO LEGGERE 1 exemplar
Ground Zero A Novel of 9/11: Ground Zero 1 exemplar
Samura1 Shortstop 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Gratz, Alan M.
- Data de nascimento
- 1972-01-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Locais de residência
- Penland, North Carolina, USA
- Educação
- University of Tennessee (BA - Creative Writing, MS - English Education)
- Ocupações
- young adult writer
- Organizações
- Authors Guild
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Best Books for Young Adults (Top Ten, 2007)
- Agente
- Barry Goldblatt
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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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Ground Zero por Alan Gratz
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.… (mais)
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.… (mais)
Este livro é baseado na vida de Ruth e Jack Gruener. Em 1939, aos 10 anos, Yanek Gruener assiste à invasão da Polônia pelo exército alemão, estopim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Do início ao fim do conflito, o garoto passa por dez campos de concentração e enfrenta viagens em vagões de gado. Faminto, sujo e subjugado, ele é um exemplo de perseverança. Sua jornada é contada neste tocante relato.
It is tough for me to say I am disappointed in this book, not only because the author is so well-respected but because the era (WW2) is a favorite. Resist is a middle-grade book (ages 8-12) that all should read. But there isn't a lot to it.
Resist follows Samira on her hunt to find and save her mother from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Along her travels, she runs into a "3 or 4-year-old boy" who not only carries a gun and has the understanding and patience not to shoot it at the Nazis as he and Samira wait for them to pass by, but he then goes on to direct Samira on how to get out of the city and tells her he will be going on by himself to cut communication wires. Sorry - way too far of a stretch there. There are other snippets equally as far-fetched, which have nothing to do with knowledge of the war.
The book is good as it has an appropriate moral ending, and the reader will enjoy it because it is super quick. But, it will fall flat for older youths as there isn't much to sink one's teeth into, even for an 8-year-old, but especially for a 12-year-old.
… (mais)
Resist follows Samira on her hunt to find and save her mother from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Along her travels, she runs into a "3 or 4-year-old boy" who not only carries a gun and has the understanding and patience not to shoot it at the Nazis as he and Samira wait for them to pass by, but he then goes on to direct Samira on how to get out of the city and tells her he will be going on by himself to cut communication wires. Sorry - way too far of a stretch there. There are other snippets equally as far-fetched, which have nothing to do with knowledge of the war.
The book is good as it has an appropriate moral ending, and the reader will enjoy it because it is super quick. But, it will fall flat for older youths as there isn't much to sink one's teeth into, even for an 8-year-old, but especially for a 12-year-old.
… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 37
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 9,274
- Popularidade
- #2,599
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 329
- ISBN
- 253
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 3
