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Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz, Ruth Gruener, Jack Gruener
Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
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A gripping novel based on the astonishing true story of a boy who survived 10 concentration camps. 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. 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?

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A great read. Students need to know on their level what happened during that time. African Americans are not the only ones who have suffered. I couldn't wait till the end.

Dr. Halbert

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loved it the narrator was awesome
and the fact that it is true wow

AMAZING

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It was a very descriptive book and made me feel like I was Yanek and I could feel all of the feelings that the characters felt like when they said that they had been working to death and had been starved I felt hungry and tired and when they said that they couldn't go to the bathroom in the cattle cars I had to go to the bathroom when I had just gone to the bathroom and did not drink any water or liquid. Anyways this was a great book and was so amazing.

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

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What an amazing story of perseverance! Based on a true story, it’s incredible that someone could survive such horrors.

Amazing

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Good without being too graphic I thought the narration was excellent and consistent and good description of life before the war

excellent blend of fiction with fact

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