Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz, Ruth Gruener, Jack Gruener

Narrated by: Steven Kaplan

A gripping novel based on the astonishing true story of a boy who survived 10 concentration camps. Based on the true story by Ruth and Jack Gruener.

Ten concentration camps. Ten 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?

©2013 Alan Gratz (P)2015 Scholastic Inc.

great story

I've already read this story twice, and now for the third time I reading it🙂 this is one one of the besst stories I've ever read. nice job

Excellent Book!

My 10 year old son, my husband and myself all listened to this book during a road trip. It was amazing. We all loved it.

very good... short read

It was a great story of tragedy and triumph. especially like the authors note at the end!

Not quite a true story.

While listening to this, I thought it was a fascinating book. Unfortunately, at the end, I learned that it was several people's stories combined to be one character. If I had known that up front, I probably wouldn't have listened to it.

And miraculously he lives!

A true story of a 13 yr old who lives thru countless concentration camps. It is written from his perspective and puts the reader in a teenagers mind and heart as he is tested over and over. A great book to teach a first person account of a Jewish boy coming of age in a heartless, soulless world.