Last Thursday, the 5th and 6th grade Nooksters met to watch and discuss The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The back cover of the book offered no information as to what the book was actually about and the pages of the book never came straight out and said it either. Told from the point of view of an innocent 8 year-old, the book read like a fable with simple words and thoughts. But the keen reader could tell that this book was about so much more than the simple day-to-day events of the main character Bruno. Nooksters soon realized that this book was actually about the Holocaust. The "pajamas" weren't pajamas at all but instead the uniforms of concentration camp captives. I personally think this is one of the best books we have read in book club, and the movie was excellent as well. This is one of those of stories that is heartbreaking and impossible to forget.
Our next book for the 5th and 6th graders is Flipped. We will meet Thursday, July 21 at 3:30.
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