

- Historical fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction
Three different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE. Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world… Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety and freedom in America… Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe… All three young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, surprising connections will tie their stories together in the end.
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Grave, earnest, overwhelming and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alan Gratz
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- lisafower, Scholastic, Scholastic, Inc.
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781338229592
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Alan Gratz has wanted to be a writer ever since he was a kid. He went to the University of Tennessee to study creative writing, and ten years and more than sixty-five rejections later he was finally able to get his very first book published. Now Alan is the author of fifteen books for young readers, many of which have won state awards, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and been voted their favorite book of the year by students and librarians. ([source][1]) Photo by Wes Stitt [1]: https://www.alangratz.com/about/
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