Alan Gratz likes to create characters for his novels for young readers who are connected across miles and decades, he told hundreds of fifth- and seventh-graders on Friday in a packed Missouri Theatre ...

Alan Gratz's children's book "Ban This Book" was published in 2017. Seven years later, his novel for kids ages 8 and older is at the center of a debate over book banning after a Florida school ...

FLORIDA (WKRC) - A book about banning books just proved life is as strange as fiction by getting banned itself. Bestselling author Alan Gratz published "Ban This Book" in 2017. The story follows a ...

An author whose novel about book banning was removed from a Florida school district’s library shelves has asked the school board to reinstate his book, saying that its removal is “erasure of the ...