Prisoner B-3087 — Content Guide for Parents
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- ReligionBriefJewish
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- Profanity: The sources do not discuss the language used in the book's text.
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PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
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.
Frequently asked questions
Is Prisoner B-3087 appropriate for a 7-year-old?
Yanek is starved, beaten and worked brutally through ten camps, sees prisoners murdered, and is forced on death marches. The story shows frightening camp conditions, deaths and near-death escapes, and a reviewer says it grows darker and closer to Elie Wiesel's Night.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have violence?
Found (Central): Yanek is starved, beaten and worked brutally through ten camps, sees prisoners murdered, and is forced on death marches.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have scary content?
Found (Central): The story shows frightening camp conditions, deaths and near-death escapes, and a reviewer says it grows darker and closer to Elie Wiesel's Night.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have religion?
Found (Brief, Jewish): Yanek, a Jewish boy, stands with another boy during his bar mitzvah in a camp; the Nazis' persecution of Jews is covered under race.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have race & culture?
Found (Central): The story follows a Jewish boy in Poland who is persecuted, confined in a ghetto and sent through concentration camps by the Nazis.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have profanity?
Couldn't confirm: The sources do not discuss the language used in the book's text.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have sexual content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have gender roles?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Prisoner B-3087 have gender & orientation?
Not found in the sources we checked.
