Tři mladí lidé, jedna touha: utéct. Josef je židovský chlapec v nacistickém Německu třicátých let. Jeho rodina před hrozícím nebezpečím prchá na lodi mířící na druhý konec světa. Isabel je kubánská dívka. Píše se rok 1994 a její zemi pustoší vzpoury a nepokoje, a tak se s rodinou vydává na člunu hledat bezpečí a svobodu v Americe. Mahmúd je mladý Syřan. Jeho vlast v roce 2015 ničí válka a on s celou rodinou putuje pěšky po Evropě. Všichni hledají úkryt a všichni musí překonat nepředstavitelná nebezpečí.
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Alan Gratz se zaměřuje na napínavé historické a dobrodružné příběhy, které často zkoumají témata odvahy, přežití a hledání identity. Jeho próza je známá svým svižným tempem a poutavým vyprávěním, které čtenáře vtáhne do středu akce. Gratz mistrně propojuje historická fakta s fiktivními postavami, čímž vytváří díla, která jsou nejen zábavná, ale i vzdělávací. Jeho schopnost psát pro mladé dospělé čtenáře i pro širší publikum z něj činí významného autora současné literatury.







Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.
Ban This Book
- 255 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
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.
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
- 309 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough-- but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
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!
Code of Honor
- 278 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
When Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labelled a terrorist, he sets out to piece together the codes and clues that will save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack.
Ground Zero
- 336 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
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. September 11, 2001, New York City: Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape? September 11, 2020, Afghanistan: Reshmina has grown up in the shadow of war, but she dreams of peace and progress. When a battle erupts in her village, Reshmina stumbles upon a wounded American soldier named Taz. Should she help Taz -- and put herself and her family in mortal danger? Two kids. One devastating day. Nothing will ever be the same.
From Alan Gratz, the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster Refugee, comes a thrilling new multi-perspective novel, this time centered around D-Day.