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Awards for Code of Honor; Year Award Result Ref. 2016 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Young Adult Novel Nominee 2016 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Winner 2018 South Carolina Junior Book Award Winner 2016 Tome Society It List Nominee 2018 Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee 2018 Georgia Peach Teen Award
256 [ 2] ISBN. 978-0-7653-8556-7. 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 ...
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]
A full house attends an Indian River County School Board meeting held Feb. 22, 2022, to consider banning certain books from the school libraries.
Alan Gratz, an author of books for young readers, on Friday talked about his books with hundreds of CPS students at the Missouri Theatre.
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Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2017. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: Nazi Germany, 1990s Cuba, and modern-day Syria. It follows Josef Landau, a German Jew in the 1930s, who tries to leave Germany to Cuba, Isabel Fernandez, a Cuban girl in ...
The award is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries and was originally named after the Vermont writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher. In 2020, it was temporarily renamed the "VT Middle-Grade Book Award" before schoolchildren voted to officially call it the "Vermont Golden Dome Book Award".