Alan Gratz is doing his small part ... who refuses to accept that the man who can save his life is black. Henry’s story, Gratz notes, is inspired by a real-life medic, Waverly “Woody ...

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 ...

Twenty-year-old Chicago native Henry graduates from the U.S. Army’s Officer Candidate School, only to find that no positions as an officer are open to him because he is black. Instead he trains ...

Alan Gratz, author of “Ban This Book,” said ... “Ban This Book,” published in 2017, is a novel about a Black fourth-grader who learns her school library has banned her favorite book ...

"HEROES: A NOVEL OF PEARL HARBOR" by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press, 272 pages, $19). "I was afraid. Of pretty much everything. There were a hundred ways to die at Pearl Harbor," admits 13-year-old ...

It will be difficult for any reader to sit on a comfortable couch in a comfortable home and absorb Alan Gratz’s new middle-grade novel, "Refugee," without feeling both an overwhelming sense of ...