Quotes from Alan Gratz

So, you're English?" Fritz asked. I bristled at the insult.

the gibbous moon glowed bloodred in the sky

But this is—this is incredible!" Goldsmit stopped in an empty hallway next to a table with a vase full of edelweiss flowers. "Switzerland is neutral!" "Do you think the Nazis care?" I asked him.

burst. How could I possibly wait? He turned to

A real coward would have run away and never looked back. Fear isn't a weakness. Anybody who's never been afraid is a fool.

Because that's what Nazi Germany was: the bully who found your most painful wound and poked at it with a stick.

They lined the men up against a wall in the assembly yard. Rat-tat-tat-tat! The watch officer gunned them down himself, riddling their bodies with bullets.

What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

Maybe, Reshmina thought, they wouldn't fight at all. Maybe they would spend their time doing something else instead, like building factories and schools and hospitals.

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

There was no letter in the Jewish stars though. No matter where we had come from, we had no country. We were only Jews.

Then, after you have killed as many Americans as you can," Sano added, "you are to use the other grenade to kill yourself.

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

Silly to you, maybe. All reasons are silly to someone else, and we think the challenges to the books already removed are silly. What makes one person's reason any sillier than another person's reason?

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.

I hope you'll listen to what they have to say and think about how you can make a difference for the future. Because we're all together on this island we call Earth, and we're the only ones who can save it. Thank you!

Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can't read except your parents.

I wasn't happy about it, but I respected their decision. Every now and then you had to break the rules to do the right thing, but a lot of times following the rules was the right thing.

Every book banned by the school board in this novel is the title of a book that has been challenged or banned in an American library at least once in the last thirty years.

explosions. The battle was over. "Yes, Mor," Reshmina

We were made at the motel.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.