Prisoner B-3087

Description

From Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy’s struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Alan Gratz,Ruth Gruener (Author),Jack Gruener (Author)
Published: 03/01/2013
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9780545459013
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.70″ W

Award: 2013 Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) Recommended – Historical Fiction
Award: 2013 Cybils Finalist – Middle Grade Fiction
Award: 2015 Golden Archer Award Nominee – Middle/Junior High
Award: 2015 Iowa Teen Award Nominee – Young Adult
Award: 2015 Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee – Middle School
Award: 2015 Golden Sower Award Winner – Young Adult
Award: 2016 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee – Tween
Award: 2015 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award Winner – Grades 6-8
Award: 2016 Georgia Children’s Book Award Finalist – Children’s Book
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Nominee – Grades 9-12
Award: Isinglass Teen Read Award Winner – Grades 6-8
Award: Truman Readers Award Nominee – Grades 6-8
Award: 2016 Virginia Readers Choice Award Nominee – Middle School
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards Nominee – Middle School
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award Nominee – Junior Book

About the Author

Alan Gratz is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several highly acclaimed books for young readers, including Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, Two Degrees, Ground Zero, Allies, Grenade, Refugee, Projekt 1065, Prisoner B-3087, Code of Honor, and Captain America: The Ghost Army, an original graphic novel. Alan lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Look for him online at alangratz.com.

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. Until her death in 2021, Ruth worked as a docent at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan and traveled all over the country to speak to schools about her and Jack’s experiences in the Holocaust.