Prisoner B-3087 Kindle Edition

My 10 year old advanced reader loves this series. I was looking for a new series for him but struggled because he just isn't that into the fantasy type series. He prefers stories about real life. I was concerned the subject might be too much for his age but it is told in an age appropriate way. He devoured the whole series.

I rarely post reviews since I am so busy, but this book deserves a thoughtful review. I picked up the book for my 11yo son's summer reading list. He is hooked on anything WWII, but glamorizes war and the military aspects of the war (which is normal!). I wanted him to see another side... the ugly side of war. I read the book before giving it to him and I think this book is perfect for that goal. I get some of the negative reviews, but I am actually grateful for the way the story is told. If it wasn't told high level and a bit detached, it would be way to intense (and long) to be a children's book. The topic alone is about as intense as it gets and Yanek's experience spanned almost a decade. All that being said, there are some scenes that are emotional and scary. I think the balance is good, but as a parent, we know our kids best and when they are ready for this type of thing. I recommend you read it first before giving to your child so you can discuss what happens and give support if he/she is on the younger side of the age range.I downloaded the book to his kindle tonight and he doesn't want to put it down! Can I read one more chapter before going to bed? In one night, he started the book and read to chapter 6... did I mention my son really isn't a reader?!

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.

The young boy Yanek learned that the only way to stay alive was to survive one more day. Yanek survived 10 concentration camps between the age of 13 and 16. Before the camp she survived the Krakow ghetto as a child. This corageous young man survived the war and immigrated to the USA. The book is a story of hardship and courage.

Amazing story. My child read it for school but I got into the story equally. It is an amazing story about the Holocaust and survival based on true events reported to the author. The author takes you first hand into the life of a child during WWII and what he goes through to survive.

I don't know about you but when I want to try a series of books for my son, I only buy one or the first one FIRST before buying the "set" thus I started him on Refugee from a school library fundraiser purchase. LOVED it.... long story short he seriously devours these books! Takes them to school for free time, no back talk to get into bed a little earlier for reading time, begging for just 5 more minutes at bedtime - seriously, I just wish there were more - makes the mom or dad job so much easier! So my question would be if your son or daughter loved this series too -where do I go next? Open to suggestions as there is only one left in this series he is about to begin - Code of Honor.... help! :-)

Prisoner B-3087 is a very moving story that tells of the hardships of simply being Jewish during what we call the Holocaust. I recommend this book because it shows how we are so very very very 'lucky' for what we have and that we should see life for not what it is but for what it could be.

I read this book because my 12 year old grandson read it. He is a thoughtful, sensitive boy andI have a very close relationship with him. As a 76 year old Jewish man, I feel beaten up by the Holocaust, by Yad Vashem, by numerous films, museums, the Showa Foundation et al. Am I grateful for the countless telling of the story? A resounding YES! Am I troubled by its presentation in this book to be directed at middle schoolers? The answer is also YES. 5 stars for an older audience. How can anyone read this without raw emotion battering their soul.

I've read a lot of Holocaust literature over the past ten or so years, but Prisoner B-3087 is a little different to what I normally read in that it is a fictionalisation of a true survivors' story. And what a story it is.Yanek Gruener isn't even a teenager when the Nazi's invade Poland, but he grows up in the fastest, most brutal way in a Ghetto, ten concentration camps and two Death Marches. Although the writing is fairly sparse and simplistic, in doing so Alan Gratz doesn't try and romanticise, embellish or exaggerate the truth of Yanek's story. It's brutal and cold and epitomises how Yanek survives - by making himself as annonymous as possible.Although aimed at the Young Adult market, this book doesn't hold anything back - although not graphically described, there isn't any part of the story that is glossed over - from the brutal, random cruelty of the kapo's and SS, the death camps and the unending, hopeless fight for survival.I read this book in one sitting because I just couldn't stop reading - and admiring the strength and determination of Yanek to survive no matter the horrors that he encountered every single day for years.There's not much more I can say about this book because it is what it says on the tin - plot wise there are no surprises and it focuses almost primarily on Yanek's journey through the horror of the holocaust.Prisoner B-3087 is a book I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone that reads about the Holocaust, and as a book for older teens it is a powerful educational tool - Yanek's story is so unbelivable and yet Alan Gratz brings it alive on the page. Unpretentious, sad, moving and ultimately uplifting, this is a book that will stick with me for a very long time.

This book is very harrowing. It is very well written. That he survived after all he experienced is astounding. Highly recommended.

Good Book to read

Great book 10 + I would say really interesting loved every moment of it it was the best book I've ever read

This is the story of a 10 year-old boy, from the time of the Nazi invasion of Krakow, Poland, in 1939 until liberation by the Americans in 1945. I highly recommend it for any young person who wants or needs to know about the Holocaust. There are occasionally some inaccuracies but, as Mr Gratz carefully explains, this is a novel based on what happened to the boy, which required a few alterations so as to illustrate the full extent of the Holocaust. The liberation of Dachau found me with tears running down my cheeks, and again, this book comes highly recommended.