# Refugee

**Author:** Alan Gratz
**Lexile:** 800L
**Grade range:** Grades 5–9
**Age range:** 10–15
**First published:** 2017
**Page count:** 352
**Genre:** Historical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780545880831`
**ISBN-10:** `0545880831`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/refugee
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Three young refugees in three eras — Josef fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939, Isabel leaving Cuba by raft in 1994, and Mahmoud escaping war-torn Syria in 2015 — tell interwoven stories that ultimately connect. A widely assigned middle-grade novel used to build empathy and teach modern and historical refugee crises.

## Themes

- refugees
- survival
- family
- displacement
- empathy

## Content notes

- war violence
- death
- peril

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 11+

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