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Prisoner B-3087

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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 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.

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Gr 6-10-"If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night." Yanek Gruener was 10 years old when the German army invaded Poland in 1939 and trapped his family inside the walls of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. Over the course of World War II, he saw his parents deported by the Nazis and survived 10 different concentration camps. Through Gratz's spare, persistent prose, the story of the boy's early life unfolds with the urgency and directness necessary for survivor stories. While some liberties have been taken, with the permission of Gruener and his wife, Ruth, also a survivor, the experiences and images come directly from the Grueners' collective memories of the war. An author's note provides further biographical information. A powerful story, well told.-Sara Saxton, Tuzzy Consortium Library, Barrow, AKα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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When Hitler’s army entered and occupied his native Kraków, 10-year-old Yanek knew his life might change, but he had no idea of the horror that lay ahead. His remarkable survival story begins with a dramatic, emotional punch and then chronicles such moments as his secretive bar mitzvah in a warehouse basement, the systematic round up of Jews, and his deportation to the Plaszow concentration camp, the first of 10 camps he would suffer but survive. He recalls encounters with such Nazi figures as the sadistic Amon Goeth and describes acts of wanton, viscious brutality. In an appended note, Gratz explains that the novel is based on actual events in survivor Jack Gruener’s life but he has “taken liberties with some times and events” to provide a better overview. The account includes basic historical information including essential aspects of WWII. A map would have been helpful, but this essentially true story is a good starting point for students unfamiliar with the Holocaust. Pair it with Doreen Rappaport’s Beyond Courage (2012) and Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Grades 5-8. --Linda Perkins

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4.9 out of 5

98.46% of customers are satisfied

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent author

d.c. · September 12, 2024

This book is very sad and is based on a real persons life. Alan Gratz should be read by all!!

5.0 out of 5 stars this is amazing

N.L.S.A. · July 23, 2024

It is very interesting and informative. One of the good parts is that we learn what happened to the Jews and all the concentration camps

5.0 out of 5 stars great read! really great without being too gory or detailed with horrors

A.C. · May 21, 2024

I liked the voice, great writing, I really liked Yanek! Yes for youth, important read!!! Easy to read, page turner, fast and kept me hooked!

4.0 out of 5 stars hard subject, well written

T. · June 16, 2024

The accounts were well written, and the interactions depicted put you right in the middle of the lives of those that went through the horror of WWII. It tore at my heart repeatedly to read what this young man saw and went through.

5.0 out of 5 stars very good

P.B. · April 6, 2019

Prisoner B-3087: A Novel Based on a true story by Ruth and Jack Gruener is by Alan Gratz. This book is good for middle school students. It is by Scholastic. The book is great and is very realistic. It covers the information from Jack’s life; but some of the times and things have been changed to suit the story.The story is Jack’s story as he went through ten concentration camps during the war years and managed to survive. He and his family lived in Poland. When he was living in the Krakow ghetto with his parents. They lived in a pigeon coop on the roof of the building where they once had an apartment. He worked in a tailor shop. He had stopped off at a friend’s house on the day that his parents were taken. They were picked up in line buying food. At the age of thirteen, he was suddenly alone in the world. He was picked up in 1942 and taken to Plaszow. At this time, he thought he was the only remaining member of his extended family. He was to discover his Uncle Moishe was in Plaszow. Through a series of close calls with the commandant and kapos, he managed to work his way through ten different camps before his liberation. He remembers each camp vividly. Eventually, Jack told his story but it was always painful for him.The book is fantastic and though it is fiction, it is told in a concise manner and is told with little graphic detail. It is a perfect book for middle school.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book

B.I. · April 3, 2024

The book was well written. I bought this copy used, it was in good condition, arrived on time.

5.0 out of 5 stars The right book for the non-reader

W. · August 17, 2024

This book—and, in fact, most of the series, as we’re ending up buying them one by one—has made my 12-year-old excited about his nighttime reading routine (wait... he didn’t even have one before!).

5.0 out of 5 stars Gift

C.H. · August 29, 2024

They love it

Excellent Novel!

L.M. · July 28, 2023

I purchased this novel as a summer read for myself. It was a very emotional read. I’m not going to lie, I shed more than a few tears throughout the novel. I am going to add it to my Holocaust unit with my grade 6s this year. I highly recommend this book as a starting point for middle schoolers to learn about the Holocaust!

JUST MIND BLOWING

P.S. · March 31, 2021

I love this book like anything! i got so hooked up with this book that i read it in almost 5-6 hours!! I t really just makes us realize what our ancestors went through and how lightly we take our life's good things. This book is something that's going to guide my life. After Projek1065 it's my favorite !!!!! I definitely recommend this book to everyone. If you're a book lover don't make a mistake of missing this!!!!!

Prisioner B-3087

P.&.t. · April 21, 2020

The book is truelly sad. But there are som moments where hope shines out. Jack, or Yanneck, has to survive 10 different Concentration camps. Nazis play games with him, frighten him ,and kill other people mercelessly. Jack looses his family. His best friend Fritz dies. You should truelly read this book.

The five star accident

F.Z. · February 15, 2018

An accident because it was not my intention to read this book on the first place. My younger brother needed to read it for his school, but he needed the portugueese version and accidentaly bought the english one. And so we had to buy the book again (this time in portuguese).I had to practice my english skills, when I remembered that Prisioner B3087 was already on my Bolo account.That was why I started reading the book. And it was amazing. The book is perfect, made me feel like one of the jews. I could feel what Yanek was feeling.Moreover, it was the first time I could see how was the second war from the perspective of the jewish in the concentration camps.My favorite book about the second war.

An amazing read

F. · June 14, 2018

I read this book As I had been made aware that boys from a particular school, who were unmotivated to learn, became engaged into learning more after reading this book. I understand why. It is well written and you become involved with the main characters. However, it is also historically accurate.

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