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Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz

Ages 12–18

Readers rate it 4.0 (28 on Hardcover)

272 pages · Released 2013

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This Holocaust survival memoir for young readers is historically educational but emotionally intense, depicting starvation, torture, forced labor, and death across ten concentration camps. The narrative is framed around themes of resilience and maintaining one's humanity under extreme duress, making it suitable for mature middle-grade and high school readers ready to engage with this period of history. It's widely taught in schools but requires emotional maturity and ideally parent discussion. The author handles the subject with gravity and respect while remaining age-appropriate for teen readers.

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From Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy's struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and wor... From Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy's struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story. Based on the true story by Ruth and Jack Gruener. Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face."

Shelved under

  • Jews
  • Juvenile fiction
  • History
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Fiction
  • Gruener, Jack
  • Children's fiction
  • Jews, fiction
  • Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction
  • A mix driven
  • Young Adult

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ISBN 9780545459013 · Scholastic Press

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