Alan Gratz Turns Refugee Into A Scholastic Graphic Novel With Syd Fin

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Refugee: The Graphic Novel by Alan Gratz and Syd Fini is a graphic novel adaptation of Gratz’s prose novel Refugee.

Refugee: The Graphic Novel by Alan Gratz and Syd Fini is a graphic novel adaptation of Gratz’s prose novel Refugee which follows “three young people from different time periods, all seeking refuge—Josef, fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939; Isabel, escaping Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1994; and Mahmoud, leaving war-torn Syria in 2015—and how their stories unexpectedly intertwine.”

Alan Gratz Turns Refugee Into A Scholastic Graphic Novel With Syd Fin

Alan Gratz is a YA creator of novels Prisoner B-3087, Code of Honor, Grenade, Something Rotten, and Refugee. He not too long ago wrote the unique Captain America graphic novel, The Ghost Army. Refugee has spent greater than 4 years on the New York Times bestseller checklist, and is the winner of 14 state awards in addition to the Sydney Taylor Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Cybils Middle-Grade Fiction Award, a Charlotte Huck Award Honor, and a Malka Penn Award for Human Rights Honor. Refugee was additionally a Global Read Aloud Book for 2018.

Syd Fini was born in Iran in the course of the Iran-Iraq warfare and started work as a film storyboard artist on the age of 18. He then continued directing animations and making graphic novels, dwelling in New York.

Aimee Friedman at Scholastic has purchased world rights to Refugee: The Graphic Novel and publication is deliberate for 2025. Alan Gratz’ agent Holly Root at Root Literary, represented the creator, and Syd Fini’s agent Alex Gehringer on the Bright Agency negotiated the publishing deal collectively.

Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, schooling, and media firm that publishes and distributes comics, books, and academic supplies for faculties, dad and mom, and youngsters. Its books are distributed via retail and on-line gross sales and thru faculties through studying golf equipment and festivals, and its comedian guide line Scholastic Graphix has helped to make Scholastic the most important comedian guide writer in North America.

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