Book description
"Buckle up for Two Degrees, a Hollywood thriller
of a book." - The New York Times
A new book from Alan Gratz is a major publishing moment!
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Ground
Zero now takes a meaningful look at the attack on Pearl Harbor.…
Why read it?
1 author picked Heroes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m a huge Alan Gratz fan, and this book did not disappoint. Like the creators of Superman, Siegel and Schuster, in Heroes, we have a tween writer, Frank, and a tween artist, Stanley, who talk non-stop about superhero comics as they set out to write their own. But this day is December 7, 1947, and the Japanese military attacks the boys’ Pearl Harbor home.
Gratz brings history to life with the stories of life-like characters. Frank was already riddled with fears, even fear of flip flops (you’ll have to read the book), and now the situation is beyond his…
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