Alan GratzPrisoner B-3087

This book is very sad and is based on a real persons life. Alan Gratz should be read by all!!

It is very interesting and informative. One of the good parts is that we learn what happened to the Jews and all the concentration camps

I liked the voice, great writing, I really liked Yanek! Yes for youth, important read!!! Easy to read, page turner, fast and kept me hooked!

The accounts were well written, and the interactions depicted put you right in the middle of the lives of those that went through the horror of WWII. It tore at my heart repeatedly to read what this young man saw and went through.

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 book was well written. I bought this copy used, it was in good condition, arrived on time.

This book—and, in fact, most of the series, as we’re ending up buying them one by one—has made my 12-year-old excited about his nighttime reading routine (wait... he didn’t even have one before!).

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I purchased this novel as a summer read for myself. It was a very emotional read. I’m not going to lie, I shed more than a few tears throughout the novel. I am going to add it to my Holocaust unit with my grade 6s this year. I highly recommend this book as a starting point for middle schoolers to learn about the Holocaust!

I love this book like anything! i got so hooked up with this book that i read it in almost 5-6 hours!! I t really just makes us realize what our ancestors went through and how lightly we take our life's good things. This book is something that's going to guide my life. After Projek1065 it's my favorite !!!!! I definitely recommend this book to everyone. If you're a book lover don't make a mistake of missing this!!!!!

The book is truelly sad. But there are som moments where hope shines out. Jack, or Yanneck, has to survive 10 different Concentration camps. Nazis play games with him, frighten him ,and kill other people mercelessly. Jack looses his family. His best friend Fritz dies. You should truelly read this book.

An accident because it was not my intention to read this book on the first place. My younger brother needed to read it for his school, but he needed the portugueese version and accidentaly bought the english one. And so we had to buy the book again (this time in portuguese).I had to practice my english skills, when I remembered that Prisioner B3087 was already on my amazon account.That was why I started reading the book. And it was amazing. The book is perfect, made me feel like one of the jews. I could feel what Yanek was feeling.Moreover, it was the first time I could see how was the second war from the perspective of the jewish in the concentration camps.My favorite book about the second war.

I read this book As I had been made aware that boys from a particular school, who were unmotivated to learn, became engaged into learning more after reading this book. I understand why. It is well written and you become involved with the main characters. However, it is also historically accurate.