Overview
“You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.”
From the perspective of three refugee children in different historical settings, Alan Gratz’s Refugee is an award-winning, heartrending tale of survival, adversity, and hope.
A twelve-year-old Jewish boy, Josef, in 1930s Nazi Germany, desperate to seek asylum in Cuba. An eleven-year-old Cuban girl, Isabel, in 1994, boarding a raft to America as riots and unrest engulf her country. A twelve-year-old Syrian boy, Mahmoud, in 2015 as the Syrian Civil War tears his homeland apart.
Though their circumstances and histories are distinct, all three children are refugees – and each faces their own unfathomable adversity and struggle for survival. However, separated by decades and continents, these three stories will intertwine in an extraordinary fashion.
A New York Times bestseller, Refugee is a poignant and powerful read that leaves a lasting mark on readers’ hearts.
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