Refugee (Gratz novel)

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Refugee is a middle grade novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2017. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany, 1990s Cuba, and a civil war-torn Syria. It follows Josef Landau, a German Jew in the 1930s, who tries to leave Germany to Cuba, Isabel Fernandez, a Cuban girl in 1994, who tries to escape Cuba's hunger crisis following the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the US, and Mahmoud Bishara, a Syrian youth in 2015 whose house gets destroyed by a missile and whose family decides to seek asylum in Germany. It has received positive reviews, which praised its style and historical accuracy. The novel eventually made it to The New York Times Best Seller list.

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