~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award - 2007, Jove Featured Award for Ages 15-16 - 2008, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Intermediate - 2009
If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one . . .
Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a powerful read that USA Today called "as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.”