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Alan Gratz was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He holds a B.A. in creative writing and a master's degree in English education, both from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. [2] During his time at the university, he worked for the school's newspaper, the Daily Beacon. [1] Gratz currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and children. [3]
Ban This Book is a 2017 children's novel by Alan Gratz. Inspired by a viral Internet story from the mid-2010s, it tells of an African-American North Carolina girl student's fight against book censorship. Published in 2017 to positive reviews, it became the subject of its own May 2024 ban in a Florida school district.
Allies is a historical fiction novel by Alan Gratz, based on D-Day.It was published by Scholastic Inc. on October 15, 2019. [1] Although Gratz has written several other historical fiction novels set in World War II, including Prisoner B-3087, Projekt 1065, Grenade, and Heroes, each stands alone.
Alan Gratz, an author of books for young readers, on Friday talked about his books with hundreds of CPS students at the Missouri Theatre.
Prisoner B-3087 is a Junior Library Guild book. [3]Kirkus Reviews called Prisoner B-3087 "a bone-chilling tale not to be ignored by the universe." [4] Publishers Weekly wrote that Gratz's "determination to be exhaustively inclusive, along with lapses into History Channel–like prose, threatens to overwhelm the story.
Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
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Something Rotten is the first novel of the Horatio Wilkes mystery series by Alan Gratz. It loosely follows the plot of Hamlet by William Shakespeare , but it is modernised and set in the United States.