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“New York Times” bestselling author Alan Gratz will be attending a meet and greet hosted by Avid Bookshop on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 4 to 5 p.m at the Prince Avenue location. Gratz is the author of ...
The love of baseball links nine generations of the Schneider/Snider/Flint family in this story collection that tracks the national pastime from the 1840s to the ...
The novel opens and closes with 16-year-old Dee Carpenter, a U.S. Army private aboard a transport ship heading for the coast of Normandy, France, in the early hours of June 6, 1944. “Today was D-Day,” ...
If Shakespeare seems kind of stuffy and outdated, try local author Alan Gratz’s take on the bard’s classic, Hamlet. That age-old play serves as the basis for Gratz’s young adult novel, Something ...
FLORIDA (WKRC) - A book about banning books just proved life is as strange as fiction by getting banned itself. Bestselling author Alan Gratz published "Ban This Book" in 2017. The story follows a ...
Alan Gratz likes to create characters for his novels for young readers who are connected across miles and decades, he told hundreds of fifth- and seventh-graders on Friday in a packed Missouri Theatre ...
In his previous life, bestselling author Alan Gratz taught middle school and high school English, worked as a publicist for an art museum and a private boarding school, wrote radio commercials, sold ...
Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown will host two free events on April 15 for Alan Gratz, the award-winning and bestselling author of “Two Degrees,” which stirred up controversy at a local school district. ...
"GROUND ZERO" by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press, 336 pages, $18). In "Ground Zero," possibly his most heart-wrenching middle-grade book yet, Knoxville native Alan Gratz takes the shock, disorientation, ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Leaders from around the world gathered in Normandy on June 6 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ...