Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Page: 35
Published: July 25, 2017
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Synopsis: Three different kids.
One 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 ship bound for the other side of the world…
Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety and freedom in America…
Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe…
All three young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always 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.
My Opinion:
The story was great. I have just always had issues with multiple points of view. My son loved it. This was assigned reading for him. We ended up with a physical copy and an audiobook copy of this. He enjoyed this one much better that the book he started out on by the same author. We had to request an alternative assignment for him. And this is what was assigned.
We have three main characters. So in 1939 we meet Joseph and his family. A Jewish family living in Nazi Germany. And in 1994 we meet Isabel and her family in Cuba which is plagued by the civil unrest in the country. And finally in 2015 we meet a Syrian boy, living in a war-torn country, Mahmoud. Each main character is trying to find a better life. Each character has an amazing way of having things work out.
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