Alan Gratz Knihy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.