About the Author
Gratz was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee to study creative writing. Ten years after graduating, Gratz published his first novel for young readers, Samurai Shortstop. Since then, he has published 15 books for young readers, including several historical fiction works. Refugee spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list. Gratz also spent a period of time teaching historical fiction writing in Tokyo and Jakarta. He has written plays, magazine articles, a few television articles, and more than 6,000 radio commercials. Gratz currently lives with his wife and daughter in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Prisoner B-3087 is based on the true story of Yanek Gruener, a young Jewish boy who is 10 years old when the Nazis invade his home city of Kraków, Poland in September 1939. Yanek, his parents Oskar...
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Refugee follows the stories of three refugee children fleeing conflicts in their home countries. The first protagonist, Josef, is a 12-year-old Jewish boy living in Germany in 1938, during the rise...
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