Prisoner B-3087
$46.34
- Hardcover
260 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1970
Summary
Endure: The Unbreakable Spirit of Prisoner B-3087
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780545459013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 054545901X |
| Author: | Alan Gratz |
| Publisher: | Scholastic Press |
| Imprint: | Scholastic US |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 260 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1970 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 145mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Prisoner B-3087: A Junior Library Guild Selection
Golden Sower Award, 2014-2015 Winner Nebraska
Isinglass Teen Read Award, 2014-2015 Winner New Hampshire
Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award, 2014-2015 Winner Pennsylvania
Junior Book Award, 2015-2016 Winner South Carolina
Grand Canyon Reader Award, 2015-2016 Winner Arizona
Truman Readers Award, 2015-2016 Winner Missouri
Readers Choice Awards, Winner 2015-2016 Virginia
Volunteer State Book Award Winner, 2015-2016 Tennessee
A powerful story, well told. – School Library Journal
A bone-chilling tale not to be ignored. – Kirkus Reviews
[A] remarkable survival story. – Booklist
Gratz ably conveys … fatalism, yearning, and determination in the face of the unimaginable. – Publishers Weekly
Heartbreaking, gripping, raw, and emotional … storytelling at its finest. – VOYA
About The Author
Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz is the New York Times bestselling author of several books for young readers, including Grenade; Refugee; Projekt 1065, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016; Prisoner B-3087, a Junior Library Guild selection that was named to YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults list; and Code of Honor, a YALSA 2016 Quick Pick. Alan lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter.
Ruth Gruener was born Aurelia Gamser in 1930s Poland. Ruth and her parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the homes of gentile families. After World War II was over, Ruth and her family moved to the United States, where Ruth tried to start an ordinary teenage life in Brooklyn. Ruth married Jack Gruener, another Holocaust survivor, with whom she lived in Brooklyn until Jack’s passing in 2017. They have two children and four grandchildren. Ruth works as a docent at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan and travels all over the country to speak to schools about her and Jack’s experiences in the Holocaust.
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