We sit down with your middle schoolers’ favorite author, Alan Gratz, to talk historical fiction, what history can reveal about the present day, how, and why, to captivate young readers, and why ...

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The love of baseball links nine generations of the Schneider/Snider/Flint family in this story collection that tracks the national pastime from the 1840s to the ...

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BROTHER TALK: Alan Gratz's new novel, Code of Honor, inspired in part by the TV series “Homeland,” centers on a Persian-American teen whose brother is a suspected terrorist. As he explains the genesis ...

The novel opens and closes with 16-year-old Dee Carpenter, a U.S. Army private aboard a transport ship heading for the coast of Normandy, France, in the early hours of June 6, 1944. “Today was D-Day,” ...

“It all started the day my favorite book went missing from the library,” said Amy Anne Ollinger, heroine of the latest middle-grade novel, "Ban This Book," by former Knoxvillian Alan Gratz. As the ...

FLORIDA (WKRC) - A book about banning books just proved life is as strange as fiction by getting banned itself. Bestselling author Alan Gratz published "Ban This Book" in 2017. The story follows a ...

"HEROES: A NOVEL OF PEARL HARBOR" by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press, 272 pages, $19). "I was afraid. Of pretty much everything. There were a hundred ways to die at Pearl Harbor," admits 13-year-old ...

In his previous life, bestselling author Alan Gratz taught middle school and high school English, worked as a publicist for an art museum and a private boarding school, wrote radio commercials, sold ...

” ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the ...