Survive. At any cost.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.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the YA category by the Golden Sower Award. It was recognised by the Isinglass Teen Read Award. It also was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award. It was recognised in the Middle School category by the Keystone to Reading Book Award. Also it was recognised by the Iowa Teen Award. It was recognised in the Junior / YA category by the South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award. It was recognised in the Middle School category by the Virginia Readers Choice Award. It was recognised in the Historical Fiction category by the Parents' Choice Award. It was recognised in the Fiction - Middle Grade category by the Cybils Award. The Cybils Awards is a group of readers passionate about seeking out and recognizing books that represent diversity, inclusion, and appropriate representation for children and teens. To accomplish that goal, the Cybils Awards works to recognize books written for children and young adults that combine both the highest literary merit and popular appeal. It was recognised by the Georgia Children's Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 260 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Scholastic US .

ALAN GRATZ is the author of many critically-acclaimed books for children and teens, including Samurai Shortstop , an ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults; Prisoner B-3087 ; The Brooklyn Nine ; Refugee ; and the League of Seven trilogy ( The League of Seven , The Dragon Lantern , The Monster War ). A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Alan is now a full-time writer living in western North Carolina with his wife and daughter.