![]() ![]() A new full-length novel, Ground Zero, is due in February 2021. ![]() In response to popular demand, it will be released as an ebook and audiobook on September 1. A companion novella, Resist, was offered by Scholastic as a book club giveaway but never made available for sale. Gratz’s most recent novel, Allies, is another story of World War II, this time centered around the D-Day invasion. Gratz’s bestselling 2017 novel, Refugee, follows the lives of three young protagonists in different times and places as they flee violence and persecution. Booklist described Samurai Shortstop, which features a 16-year-old protagonist confronting cultural upheaval in late-19th-century Japan, as “a testament to enduring values in a time of social change.” In a 2013 interview, Gratz told Chapter 16, “I think we do a disservice to kids when we shy away from the heavy-hitting topics with them,” and he’s put that philosophy to work in stories about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, censorship, and the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Alan Gratz has been entertaining and inspiring young readers since his first novel, Samurai Shortstop, was published in 2006. ![]()
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