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
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780545459013
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Finalist
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Winner
Award: Virginia Readers Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Golden Sower Award - Winner
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Iowa Teen Award - Nominee
Award: Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Golden Archer Award - Nominee
Award: Isinglass Teen Read Award - Winner
Award: Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) - Recommended
Award: Cybils - Finalist
Award: Truman Readers Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/28/2013
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2013
Booklist 04/15/2013 pg. 68
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2013 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
School Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 124
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 pg. 77 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 156573 / Prisoner B-3087
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 7