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Summary Of Alan Gratz's Refugee

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Refugee is a book by Alan Gratz and its genre is historical fiction.

The book follows 3 kids Josef 1930, Isabel 1994, Mahmoud 2015.

Josef is a Jewish boy that doesn't want to go to a concentration camp so he and his family board a ship so they can make it to the safety of America. Isabel a Cuban a girl in her country full of riots and plague with the dread fact that they are going to get deported they board a raft to America. Mahmoud a Syrian boy with his country full of violence him and his family set out a trail to Europe.

Josef was only twelve when his father was taken away from him and sent to concentration camp. Six months later Josef and family got a telegram from their father that saying that he was released. Josef and his family

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