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Alan Gratz

    27. leden 1972

    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.

    Alan Gratz
    Grenade
    Ground Zero
    Ban This Book
    Prisoner B-3087
    Spojenci. Den D: Jediná šance se spojit, nebo vše ztratit
    Uprchlík
    • 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.

      Uprchlík
    • 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.

      Prisoner B-3087
    • Ban This Book

      • 255 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      4,4(11825)Ohodnotit

      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.

      Ban This Book
    • Ground Zero

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      4,3(20660)Ohodnotit

      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.

      Ground Zero
    • Grenade

      • 345 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      4,2(10356)Ohodnotit

      "It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. He doesn't know what to expect -- or if he'll make it out alive. He just knows that the enemy is everywhere. Hideki and Ray each fight their way across the island, surviving heart-pounding ambushes and dangerous traps. But when the two of them collide in the middle of the battle, the choices they make in that instant will change everything. From the acclaimed author of Refugee comes this high-octane story of how fear can tear us apart, and how hope can tie us back together"--

      Grenade
    • 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.

      Two Degrees
    • The Assassination Game

      • 224 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      4,0(13)Ohodnotit

      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.

      The Assassination Game
    • 18-year-old Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter a threat like none they've ever seen - a Ghost Army číst celé

      Captain America: The Ghost Army
    • Denmark, Tennessee, stinks. The smell hits Horatio Wilkes the moment he pulls into town to visit his best friend, Hamilton Prince. And it's not just the paper plant and the polluted river that's stinking up Denmark: Hamilton's father has been poisoned and the killer is still at large. Why? Because nobody believes that Rex Prince was murdered. Nobody except Horatio and Hamilton. Now they need to find the killer, but it won't be easy. It seems like everyone in Denmark is a suspect. Motive, means, opportunity--they all have them. But who among them has committed murder most foul?

      Something Rotten