Prisoner B-3087

Prisoner B-3087

By Alan Gratz, Ruth Gruener, Jack Gruener

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Grades 6 - 8Grades 3 - 5n/a4.945937
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.
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN-13: 9780545459013
ISBN-10: 054545901X
Published on 3/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272

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This is an awesome story! One that draws you in from the first page. Prisoner B-3087 is a story of hardships and struggles as Jacob a jew boy's home is invaded by the nazis. From there he goes to an astonishing ten different concetration camps. All the meanwhile riding on deadly train rides, walking for days on death march's, coming face to face with the meanest nazis and kapos ever, and more. Plus trying to survive from hunger and starvation his constant companion. Will he be dead or alive after this is all through? Well I'm not going to tell you, you have to read the book to find out!

Nice review it's exactly what I read.