Description

For the first time, a novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee;War Games) will be available in paperback from bookstores and e-tailers! Gripping and powerful, based on the remarkable true story of Holocaust survivor Jack Gruener, Prisoner B-3087 is what launched Alan Gratz as one of today's foremost historical fiction authors. This paperback edition will include additional backmatter featuring a map, Q&A, and more.

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, and written in close collaboration with Holocaust survivor Jack Gruener, this modern classic from bestselling, beloved author Alan Gratz is a must-read, now more than ever.