Author: John Boyne
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Publish Date (Reprint): October 23, 2007
Summary: Bruno and his family moved to a new home in a new town, far away from his friends. Bruno is very bored in his new home and begins wandering around the home. He stumbles onto a concentration camp where he meets a boy in striped pajamas. A friendship begins to blossom as the two compare lives and realize they are very different from each other.
Age Range: 9th grade and up
Quality: This book is very tragic and might be hard for some students to understand. If used properly the book can introduce the atrocities of WWII and concentration camps.
Life Connections
- Death
- Understanding history - WWII, concentration camps
- Friends in unlikely places
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