The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The book was fiction but you would think it was non-fiction when you read it as it’s set in the beginning of World War 2.

The story is about a boy Bruno who lives with his family in Berlin. Bruno’s family have to move from their home to Poland. Their new home is next to a concentration camp. At first Bruno has no one to play with so he set off to explore his new home. He meets a boy called Shmuel who is the same age as him and is like a skeleton with short hair and a uniform that to Bruno looks like striped pyjamas. The boys get very close and meet every day at the fence where Bruno brings food for Shmuel.

One day Shmuel's dad goes missing. Shmuel gets Bruno a pair of striped pyjamas and he goes under the fence to help Shmuel to find his father. Bruno gets his eyes opened at what is really going on there. You will have to read the book to enjoy it as I did.

I would recommend this book. I enjoyed getting into the boys way of thinking. It was hard at first but as you get into the book you can see yourself there and the ending was not what I thought it would be.