Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed novel, comes a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. A forbidden friendship forms between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is the tale of curious 8-year-old Bruno. Bored in his new home, Bruno wanders into the nearby woods where he discovers an unusual fence, behind which is a boy strangely dressed in "black-and-white pajamas." They embark on an unusual friendship - one that proves both ordinary and remarkable, inspiring and tragic.
Author
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
BASED ON THE BOOK BY JOHN BOYNE
SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: LIBRARY OF STORIES
CONTENT
Bruno Makes a Discovery
The New House
A Lonely New Life
The Fence
Bruno Meets Shmuel
Growing Friendship
Bruno's Family Struggles
The Final Adventure
The Tragic End
General Analysis of the Book
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne follows the story of an eight-year-old boy named...
Author
Series
Young Reader's Choice Award - Intermediate Division volume 2009 Winner
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story. Over the course of this evening, he will raise five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him. Through these stories - of unspoken joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept hidden, a fierce love that never found...
Author
Language
English
Description
"World War II sculpted heroes from ordinary hearts, crafting a narrative of courage that still paints the sky of human history with indelible hues of resilience and unity." In this heart-wrenching sequel to "Forbidden Bonds of Auschwitz: Book 1," Kamilla, a resilient Hungarian Jew, faces the brutality of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Forbidden love blooms in the shadows as she forms a dangerous connection with SS Officer Lukas. As Kamilla's world unravels,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Boyne became internationally known for his acclaimed novels Crippen and the bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, for the first time in the US comes The Thief of Time, the book that started the career of the author that the Irish Examiner calls "one of the best and original of the new generation of Irish writers."
It is 1758 and Matthieu Zela is fleeing Paris after witnessing the murder of his mother and his stepfather's execution....
12) The surfacing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding." -JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and A History of Loneliness "The great topic of Cormac James' The Surfacing is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing. James...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, which tells the story of nine-year-old Bruno, the son of a high-ranking Nazi official. When the family is forced to leave Berlin for his father's new job, Bruno finds himself living next to a mysterious camp surrounded by an imposing fence, and soon befriends Shmuel, an emaciated boy of his own age living on the other side of the fence. While the adults around...
Author
Series
Boy in the striped pyjamas volume 2
Language
English
Description
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...