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Alan Gratz sa zameriava na napínavé historické a dobrodružné príbehy, ktoré často skúmajú témy odvahy, prežitia a hľadania identity. Jeho próza je známa svojím svižným tempom a pútavým rozprávaním, ktoré čitateľa vtiahne do stredu akcie. Gratz majstrovsky prepája historické fakty s fiktívnymi postavami, čím vytvára diela, ktoré sú nielen zábavné, ale aj vzdelávacie. Jeho schopnosť písať pre mladých dospelých čitateľov aj pre širšie publikum z neho robí významného autora súčasnej literatúry.







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...
Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel)
- 176 stránok
- 7 hodin čítania
An original Captain America graphic novel.Check back here for more info soon.
Two Degrees
- 336 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
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.
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.
A végső megoldás: a remény
- 240 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
Allies
- 336 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
Set against the backdrop of D-Day, the story follows Dee Carpenter, a young American soldier seeking vengeance for his uncle's arrest by Nazis, and Samira Zidano, an eleven-year-old French-Algerian girl determined to contact the French resistance to save her mother. As they navigate the chaos of June 6, 1944, both children are driven by their desire to fight and survive, highlighting themes of courage, loss, and the impact of war on young lives.
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.
Grenade
- 270 stránok
- 10 hodin čítania
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.
Ban This Book
- 255 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
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.
Josef flieht 1938 aus Nazideutschland und muss eine Odyssee auf dem Meer mit der MS St. Louis erleiden. Isabel verlässt 1994 mit ihrer Familie ein von Unruhen erschüttertes Kuba. Mahmoud flüchtet 2015 mit seinen Eltern aus Syrien. Ihnen allen gemein ist die Flucht über das endlose Meer, traumatische Erlebnisse und familiärer Zusammenhalt, Verluste und Hoffnung. Refugee nimmt sich der großen Themen von Flucht und Vertreibung an. Ein zeitloses Buch und gleichzeitig hochaktuell! 3 Jahrzehnte, drei Fluchtpunkte, drei Zielländer – ideal, um den Wechsel von Perspektiven zu üben Alan Gratz wurde mit der deutschen Ausgabe von Refugee für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2021 nominiert. Sein Buch erhielt außerdem 2021 den 50. Jugendliteraturpreis Buxtehuder Bulle.
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
- 309 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
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.
Prisoner B-3087
- 260 stránok
- 10 hodin čítania
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.
Starfleet Academy. Assassination Game
- 320 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, and other students at Starfleet Academy, are having fun playing the assassination game, a type of tag in which the game ends when there is only one player left, but a series of explosions on campus alerts them that someone is playing with serious intent
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?




