Review: "Refugee," by Alan Gratz

In typical Gratz fashion, he has taken an important topic and made it relatable for kids. It is a difficult book to follow with three storylines, three narrators, and three time periods represented in alternating chapters. I listened to the audio and enjoyed the three narrators, but did think it was hard to remember what had happened to the character two chapters earlier when they were last on their storyline. The story itself is fantastic though, with a young Jewish boy and his family leaving Nazi Germany, a young Cuban girl trying to boat to America in the 1990s, and a Syrian boy forced to flee his home in 2015. Very relevant details that not only touch on the Holocaust and its atrocities, but also the horrors kids today are facing in leaving their dangerous homelands.

Mrs. Denney's Rating: ***1/2

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