Refugee Summary Of Each Chapter

Refugee

Three different kids.

1 mission in common: ESCAPE.

Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a transport bound for the other side of the world…

Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her state, she and her family unit prepare out on a raft, hoping to find safety and freedom in America…

Mahmoud is a Syrian male child in 2015. With his homeland torn autonomously by violence and devastation, he and his family unit brainstorm a long trek toward Europe…

All iii young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All volition confront unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is ever the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, surprising connections will tie their stories together in the end.

Scholastic| July 25, 2017 | Ages 8 and Upwardly

A #1 New York Times bestseller!

Gratz accomplishes a feat that is nothing short of vivid…Poignant, respectful, and historically accurate while pulsating with emotional turmoil, adventure, and suspense.

—Kirkus - STARRED REVIEW

Filled with both tragic loss and ample evidence of resilience, these memorable and tightly plotted stories contextualize and give vocalisation to current refugee crises…

—Publisher'south Weekly - STARRED REVIEW

Exceptional readers Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, and Assaf Cohen tackle Gratz'southward compelling novel

—Booklist Sound - STARRED REVIEW

The audio version provides an ideal (even mandatory) opportunity for libraries to share these resonating tales with readers reluctant to selection up the page.

—School Library Journal Audiobooks - STARRED REVIEW

A stunning, poignant novel about the plight of refugees… Grade A.

—Entertainment Weekly

This compelling novel will help immature people make sense of today's refugee crisis. Meant to be read, discussed, and shared widely.

—School Library Journal

Some novels are engaging and some novels are important. Refugee is both.

—Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray

A gripping, visceral, and hold-your-breath intense story of three young refugees.

—John Dark-green

This dude does his history homework and then hides it in a full folio-turner. This is the beets in a brownie of kid lit.

—Tablet Magazine

An intelligent, man, harrowing read.

—Ellen Silva, NPR

Gratz's stirring novel humanizes the plight of refugees worldwide.

—Horn Book

Fast paced, insightful, filled with drama and tension.

—Atlanta Periodical-Constitution

A heartrending and of import tale for our time…

—The Buffalo News

Young readers will finish this book and ask: What should we do?

—Shelf Awareness Pro

A haunting fictional treatment of historic events.

—Booklist

Impossible odds and families in peril make for brilliant and unrelenting suspense in these stories of flight and daring. This heart-stopping novel is non only compelling— it is necessary.

—Judy Blundell, National Book Honour winning writer of What I Saw and How I Lied

With urgent, articulate-eyed storytelling, Gratz's Refugee compellingly explores the desperation and strength that unites those struggling for a place to call home.

—Eliot Schrefer, two-time National Book Honour finalist

An incredibly of import, heartrending, border-of-the-seat read, bringing light to the plight of immigrants who search for rubber and liberty.

—Pam Muñoz Ryan, writer of Repeat and Esperanza Rising

Total of struggle, heroism, and non-terminate adventure, Refugee is non just an important book, it's a terrific story.

—Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Newbery Honor winning author of The State of war That Saved My Life

Powerful and compelling. Refugee is more than than a story well-nigh children fleeing their homelands, it is a story about what unites us all… love, family unit and perseverance.

—Christina Diaz Gonzalez, author of The Reddish Umbrella and A Thunderous Whisper