Monday, November 16, 2020

Refugee


Alan Gratz is publishing some wonderful historical fiction stories of late.  I recently finished Allies, on the Great Stone Face list this year.  I LISTENED to this one on Overdrive.  This story had the same format as Allies - a tale told from three different perspectives.  This one, however, obviously deals with the topic of refugees.  Josef, Isabel, and Mahmud are three children from three different periods in history, all forced from their home countries for different reasons.  Josef is a Jewish boy, escaping Germany before WWII and the Holocaust.  Isabel is fleeing Communist Cuba in the 1990s.  Mahmoud is leaving war-torn Syria in 2015.  Each story is terrifying and heart-wrenching and shines a light on the plight of refugees and the need of nations to assist those in such dire need.   Although the children obviously never meet, their stories connect in a beautiful way, illustrating that a kind deed leaves ripples.

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