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How did he make the backstories for these characters. Did he base these characters off of real people?

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I found it really cool how the book switches between characters but always keeps everything exciting all at once.

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I had no idea about what had been happing to Cubans until I listened to this interview.

I also didn't know the name of the ship the Jewish people took to escape the war.

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A question I have is why did he choose to write about refugees in particular in the first place?

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Two things /i found interesting..

One: I found it interesting that he found a way to meld three separate storys together, all in different times, into one book.

Two: I found it interesting, and sad, that there were more than 900 people on the MS st Louis, because when you have that many people on a boat for a long time, disease and sickness will start to spread.

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Three things I learned are..

One: Before ww2, Jewish people tried to flee on a ship called the MS st Louis knowing that the war was coming. Unfortunately, many countries turned them away, and they were forced to go back to England.

Two: This book is set in different time periods. ww2 times , 1990 and present day.

three: This book is also set in three different countrys. Germany, Cuba and Syria

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he wanted to write about world war 2 but decided to write about refugees

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Why did he want to write about Germany originally

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What resources did he use to help him write the book

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I like how that person who made the raft was creative enough to add a motor to the raft to make it faster and more efficient.

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The Syria war has been going on for years and is still going

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How did kids didn’t get lost in the sea while migrating

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the Syrian civil war has been ongoing since 2011

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what gave him the idea to write about war and refugees

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How did he come up with the three peoples personality and name and whole life? Did he have any inspiration?

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I understand why he picked Syria because there is still a refugee crisis there, but why pick Cuba and Germany? If he’s talking about refugee situations in this age, why did he not pick a country that also still has a refugee crisis just like Syria?

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To be a good author it’s a good idea to keep an idea book. This is a book filled with ideas and little notes

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How he was able to create a personality and a full story line for these three people from there perspective even though he doesn’t know them and he made them up.

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He has so many books where he writes all of his ideas to help him write his books and stories

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why did he pick Germany, Syria and Cuba out of the many possible countries?

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reading, writing and keeping an idea book for writing books

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The author found a raft on a beach in Cuba and noticed that there was empty water bottles and wet clothes and asssumed that someone had gone threw a very long adventure on this boat and travelled about 90 miles out to get to where it is now.

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What was ur inspiration and why did he chose to write the book about this topic?

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What advice would you give to young authors as they learn to improve their skills

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What advice would you give to young authors as they learn to improve their skills

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Read a lot

Write a lot

Keep an idea book

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Keeping an idea book is a good tip for writing books

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Why did he combine the stories when he could’ve made more money selling all three.

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Each of his stories had their difficulties since they aren’t in the same time period or the same place

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I found the raft on the beach in Florida very interesting because we only ever really hear about them but seeing them in real life that doesn’t happen often.

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Instead of writing three different books, he wrote 3 stories in one book.

Found a raft on the beach which inspired the idea of multiple stories from more recent time periods.

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The third thing I learned is that refugees still exist now and he wrote about this book because he originally wanted to write about world war 2 and now that he saw that raft on the beach he became his writing journey with this book, refugee.

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The second thing I learned is the ship that they rode on was called the M.S Saint Louis.

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He hopes that people learn about how much they are and we’re affected and that they are regular people that have to go through so many struggles

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This book is about 3 kids who are from Germany,Syria, and Cuba they are all refugees and this is there incredible story.

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He hopes that people learn that refugees are regular people and not any different from us

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The MN St. Louis was a ship that had left Nazi Germany heading to Cuba with about 900 Jewish people hoping to start new lives.

More than 11 million people in Syria have lost their homes due to things like bombs.

Syria still has refugees that are trying to leaving Syria

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Which child’s story was the easiest to write?

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Which child’s story was the easiest to write?

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Joseph, because there has been so much info on Germany

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How he was able to write about the stories even though he has no personal connection to the stories

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He had no expertise in any of the cultures or countries so it was hard to write each story accurately.

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three stories about escaping Germany, Syria, and Cuba

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All the stories and places connect together 🇨🇺🇩🇪🇸🇾

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The easiest story he wrote was Joseph

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Story takes place in primarily Germany, Syria, and Cuba

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All of the stories had each of their differences and difficulties to write them

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Why Refugee is telling the story from more then one person?

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Why Refugee is telling the story from more then one person?

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Alan Gratz wanted to include all Cuban, Syrian and German refugee stories in one book, so he wrote 3 stories from 3 different kids in one book.

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I find it interesting how each kids story was difficult in their own way.

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The contradictions in how when one person wanted to go to another country, someone living there was trying to get out

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He is not from any of the cultures or from any of the countries he has written about so he had to learn a lot before writing the book

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All stories about each kids were difficult to write about but Joseph’s story was easiest to write about.

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He weaved all the different refugees stories together to all come together as one book

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Syrian civil war going on since 2011

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All the stories weave together

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the stories link

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Mahmoud left Syria on foot to Germany

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The many povs in the book

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He decided to write on those three countries because he decided that he didn’t only have to write about one

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he used different pov's that connected to eachother

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Chose to write one book about Cuban, Jewish, and Syrian Refugees instead of 3 different separate books.

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He decided to combine all of his books. 

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He decided to combine all of his books. 

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How he was able to combine three different stories into one book

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he want to write the book so young kids can learn all about it

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Why choose to write about refugees from Germany Cuba and Siria?

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Why choose to write about refugees from Germany Cuba and Siria?

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Because he got inspired from a refugee boat he saw. This made him want to write about refugees from different times including more present times.

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somebody had to go to the US on a raft

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I think it's interesting that there is so many POVs in the book

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The many dangers that they crossed to get to safety 

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The many dangers that they crossed to get to safety 

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How he incorporated multiple perspectives but all during different times

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He found a raft someone made to come to America

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Chose to write about refugees in today’s day and age instead of 75 yrs ago. And there is still a civil war going on which means there is a lot of Syrian refugees.

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Syrian Cival war has been going on since 2011

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The Syrian civil war has been going on since 2011

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The Syrian civil war has been going on since 2011

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He found a raft that someone took to come to America that was made of wood with clothes and food in it

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someone travelled in a raft about 90 miles

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He made it for people to understand thing that happened in the past and present time

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The book is about refugees from Germany, Cuba and Syria

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They built a raft from scratch

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The book is about refugees from Germany, Cuba, and Syria

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He changed the countries that the stories takes place in to relate to more people.

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the main stories take place in Germany Cuba and syria

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Refugees are from Germany Cuba Syria

MS St. Louis is the ship from Germany

Three different time periods

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The book is about refugees from germany based on the MS St. Louis.

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He wanted to write the book so young kids like us can learn all about all the different crises 

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He wanted to write the book so young kids like us can learn all about all the different crises 

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This book is about refugees from Germany Cuba and Syria

Based partly on the MS saint Louis ship

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Refugees were turned away from Cuba, the U.S, and Canada

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The rejection from the USA

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The ship is MS Saint Louis

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MS at Louis ship- The ship that left Germany and went to Cuba and brought some refugees and they were turned away and then returned to Europe. Most landed in concentration camps.

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The book is about 3 refugees from Germany, Cuba, and Syria.

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This book is about refugees from Germany, Syria and Cuba

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The main stories take place in Germany, Cuba and Syria.

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Jews had been persecuted for many years before world war 2 started