Book Review: Refugee

Hello everyone!

 Thanks for checking what's on today and wow, am I excited! This is my first book review on this blog. I will continue to do many book reviews as I go along my reading journey.

 I will be talking about an amazing book I read. Refugee is by award-winning author Alan Gratz. You may have read some of his books like Prisoner B-3087 or Projekt 1065. To me, Refugee seems like a book for 4th graders and above.

!!!!!ATTENTION!!!!: Spoilers Ahead


Refugee has an amazing story line full with adventure and action. It's about three fictitious kids along the course of real-life events in history and how they overcame those events.

 The first child is a boy named Josef and his part of the story takes place in 1939, Nazi Germany. Josef and his family follow the Jewish religion and is therefore hated by the German people. This is because Adolf Hitler, the dictator and Third Reich of Germany thinks Jews are bad and are not as perfect as pure Germans. Therefore he starts the Second World War by killing Jews and invading countries so that he can become Emperor of the World. Josef and his family escape by getting on a cruise with other refugees so that they can escape the dictator and go to a free and refugee-welcoming Cuba.

The second child is a girl named Isabel. Isabel's story takes place in Cuba, 1994 when the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was not letting people escape Cuba even when their food supplier the Soviet Union, collapsed at the end of the Cold War. As riots broke out, Castro immediately decided that anybody who wished to escape to the U.S., could. Isabel's family and her friend's family all got on a homemade boat, and sailed away across the Atlantic ocean to seek refuge in the U.S.

The third and final child is a Syrian boy named Mahmoud. Mahmoud lives in 2015, Syria when the Syrian civil war breaks out. This happened because some Syrians didn't want Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad to continue being president and became rebels, fighting against the Syrian government. Mahmoud and his family want to get out of all the fighting and air strikes that happen everyday and make their treacherous journey to refuge and peace in Germany.

Overall, I like that this book was full of adventure and action. What I didn't like though was that the stories kept switching and it was confusing to remember what happened in the other child's story when you got there. I would rate this book 5 stars.

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Adi