The boy in the striped pyjamas
Friendship stories, Movie and television tie-ins, War stories
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a… house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.