Alan Gratz, Author . Dial $17.99 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3075-5
Debut novelist Gratz uses baseball to tell the story of Japan's tumultuous transition from 19th-century feudalism to 20th-century Westernized society. In the harrowing first chapter, 15-year-old Toyo witnesses his uncle commit seppuku
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Alan Gratz, Author . Dial $16.99 (299p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3224-7
The love of baseball links nine generations of the Schneider/Snider/Flint family in this story collection that tracks the national pastime from the 1840s to the present day. It's an ambitious work of research, weaving authentic details about...
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Alan Gratz, Dial, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3463-0
Continuing to use baseball as backdrop, Gratz (The Brooklyn Nine) moves from historical fiction to fantasy with a story that playfully mixes storybook characters with stadium action. When Alex finds himself in Ever After he's sure he's dreaming—case
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-338-24571-4
“One grenade is for the American monsters coming to kill your family.... You are to use the other grenade to kill yourself.” These are the orders that Hideki, a 13-year-old Okinawan student conscripted by the Japanese military, receives on Apr. 1,...
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-545-45901-3
The Nazis killed more than one million Jewish children and teenagers; Jack (Yanek) Gruener, who was 10 when Krakow, Poland, fell, was a rare survivor. “Survive,” however, hardly seems adequate to describe what unfolds in these pages. Having lost his
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-545-88083-1
In this hard-hitting novel, Gratz (Projekt 1065) skillfully intertwines the stories of three protagonists seeking asylum with their respective families. Twelve-year-old Josef is fleeing Nazi Germany on a ship headed for Cuba in 1939; in 1994, 11-year
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Alan Gratz. Starscape, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8556-7
Fourth grader Amy Anne Ollinger is an avid reader, and when she learns that her favorite book, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, is on a list of titles removed from the school library, she decides to read the other books on the...
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Alan Gratz, read by Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, and Assaf Cohen. Scholastic Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-338-19107-3
The trenchant audio edition of Gratz’s middle grade novel employs the voices of three actor to tell the interwoven stories of three young refugees. Actor Goldstrom convincingly portrays 12-year-old Josef, who escapes persecution and murder in...
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-338-24572-1
Gratz (Grenade) delivers a tautly paced and multifaceted portrait of the D-Day invasion. This powerful historical novel begins just before dawn on June 6, 1944, as two American soldiers, 16-year-old Dee, from Philadelphia by way of Germany, and 17-ye
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-338-24575-2
Publishing in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this tautly paced novel by Gratz (Resist) explores the events of that tragedy and the subsequent American response through two parallel story lines. In September of 2019, devoted student Reshmina,
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-338-73567-3
Deftly balancing four teens’ perilous, climate change–related experiences, Gratz (Ground Zero) specifically centers scenarios around the earth’s warming by two degrees. With urgency, the tense narrative alternates between three story lines,...
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Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-338-73607-6
Set during the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the U.S. into WWII, this tensely wrought, propulsive historical novel by Gratz (Two Degrees) centers the compelling friendship between 13-year-old aspiring writer Frank McCoy and illustrator Stanley...
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