The Boy In the Striped Pajamas

I read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. It is about a German boy named Bruno who helps a Jewish boy and his life in a concentration camp. I chose this book because I read it off someones blog and it sounded amaazziinnnggg:)

Little, 9 year old Bruno from Germany has to move away from Berlin with his family to some place called "Out-With", well, that's what Bruno thought it was. But really they were moving to Auschwitz. Bruno's family is very different from him, though. They LOVE Hitler and HATE Jews. His sister Gretel is literally obsessed with Hitler, but Bruno doesn't want any part that. One day, Bruno was being curious about what he saw out his bedroom window, which looked like a farm. So he left his house and ran to what he saw, but really it was a concentration camp for Jews and other prisoners. There, on the other side of the fence that was dividing his house and the concentration camp, he met a boy named Shmuel, who had no hair, shoes, and was really skinny. They become best friends, and Bruno tries to help Shmuel with his terrible life in the camps and his will to survive.

This was one of my favorite books ever. The only thing I really didn't like about this book was the ending, which was reeeaaaalllyyy sad. And it makes it worse because this was a true story, but I loved it anyway. (: I would recommend this book to anyone who likes sad stories or about the Holocaust.