num_pages: 4
description: BONUS FEATURE: Conversation between the author and the editor, David Fickling.Berlin 1942When 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 decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
titlecomplete: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
characters: Bruno Wisitzki, Shmuelin
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classics, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 782839
places: Auschwitz, Germany, Poland
series: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award
category: John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Waterstones Children's Book Prize, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: LovelyBooks Leserpreis
category: Allgemeine Literatur, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 14-16 anys
publisher: Listening Library