Georgia Children's Book Award
2016 · Children's Book (Grades 4 - 8) · Finalist
About This Book
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?
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?
Awards
Grand Canyon Reader Award
2016 · Tween · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2016 · Middle School · Nominee
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2015 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Golden Archer Award
2015 · Middle/Junior High · Nominee
Golden Sower Award
2015 · Young Adult · Nominee
Golden Sower Award
2015 · Young Adult · Winner
Iowa Teen Award
2015 · Young Adult · Nominee
Keystone to Reading Book Award
2015 · Middle School · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2015 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2015 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2015 · Junior Book · Nominee
Truman Readers Award
2015 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2015 · Middle School · Nominee
Isinglass Teen Read Award
2014 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Isinglass Teen Read Award
2014 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Cybils
2013 · Middle Grade Fiction · Finalist
Parents Choice Award (Spring) (2008-Up)
2013 · Historical Fiction · Recommended
Junior Library Guild
2013 · Selection
