Prisoner B-3087 - Online Book Club
- Leanna Chappell
- 23 hours ago
- 2 min read
Welcome to our online book club for grades 9-12! We are excited for you to join us in reading Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz.
Along with a free copy of the book, you will receive a review page so you can tell us what you thought of the book! You will also receive a questions page to consider, activity pages, and an information page with cool links related to the book!
Kits are ready for pickup today, Monday, March 2! Please remember that we have a limited number of kits available, so it's first come, first served. If you have any special requests or need accommodations, please let Leanna or Michelle know!
All we ask is that you read the book: do as much or as little of the rest of it as you want. No matter how much you do, the book is yours!
"Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
"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.”
Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!
More about the author, the inspiration for the story, and World War II:
Alan Gratz’s website:
Book trailer for Prisoner B-3087:
Yanek “Jack” Gruener’s memorial site and Find a Grave entry:
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum:
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust:
Included as well: a word search, a crossword puzzle, and a cryptogram.
We hope you enjoy these activities and would love to hear what you thought of the book! We also hope you enjoyed the extra links. Remember, you can comment here on this website, email us at swantonpl@gmail.com, or come in and turn in a physical copy!