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 ...

Anyone who does could benefit from reading “Refugee,” the new novel by Alan Gratz. It is a tripartite narrative, stories of escape as experienced by three children in three different eras.

Anyone who does could benefit from reading “Refugee,” the new novel by Alan Gratz. It is a tripartite narrative, stories of escape as experienced by three children in three different eras.

Anyone who does could benefit from reading “Refugee,” the new novel by Alan Gratz. It is a tripartite narrative, stories of escape as experienced by three children in three different eras.

In “Refugee,” writer Alan Gratz shows how human beings and human lives get caught in the gears of those politics. It's an important read right now ...