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Author: John BoynePublisher: Random HouseISBN: 140909751XCategory: Juvenile FictionPage: 256View: 9242Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us. Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He’s oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has moved from Berlin to a desolate area where he has no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel. Shmuel lives in a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence, where everyone wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Despite the wire fence separating them, the two boys become best friends. As they grow closer, Bruno starts to learn the terrible truth that lies beyond the fence, and what life is like for his friend. John Boyne’s classic novel explores the friendship and loss of innocence of Bruno and Shmuel, during one of the worst points in history. Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading GuideAuthor: Bright SummariesPublisher: BrightSummaries.comISBN: Category: Study AidsPage: 48View: 5051Unlock the more straightforward side of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, which tells the story of nine-year-old Bruno, the son of a high-ranking Nazi official. When the family is forced to leave Berlin for his father’s new job, Bruno finds himself living next to a mysterious camp surrounded by an imposing fence, and soon befriends Shmuel, an emaciated boy of his own age living on the other side of the fence. While the adults around him deliberately turn a blind eye to the camp on their doorstep, Bruno attempts to understand his new friend, with tragic consequences for them both. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is John Boyne’s best-known novel. It has sold over five million copies to date, and was adapted for the cinema in 2008. Find out everything you need to know about The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in a fraction of the time!
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See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com! Author: John BoynePublisher: SalamandraISBN: 329Category: Juvenile NonfictionPage: 256View: 8591Cuando Pierrot queda huerfano debe abandonar su casa en Paris para irse a una nueva vida con su tia Beatriz, una criada de una rica familia austriaca. Pero esto no es una epoca cualquiera, ya que es 1935 y la Segunda Guerra Mundial se acerca rapidamente; y esta no es una casa comun, ya que es Berghof, la casa de Adolfo Hitler. Pierrot se encuentra rapidamente bajo el ala de Hitler y es lanzado a un nuevo mundo cada vez mas peligroso: un mundo de terror, de secretos y de traicion del que nunca podra escapar. Author: John BoynePublisher: Knopf Books for Young ReadersISBN: Category: Young Adult FictionPage: 352View: 1525The international bestseller that has touched millions of readers around the world is now available in a deluxe illustrated edition, featuring powerful illustrations by acclaimed artist Oliver Jeffers. Berlin, 1942: When 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 to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do.
A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno decides 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 from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences. Now available in a gorgeous deluxe edition featuring stunning artwork by award-winning illustrator Oliver Jeffers, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas takes on dramatic new intensity. Author: John BoynePublisher: Random HouseISBN: Category: FictionPage: 528View: 3238Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century.
Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. His only companions are his younger brother Tomas and one true love, Dominique Sauvet. The story of his life takes us from the French Revolution to 1920s Hollywood, from the Great Exhibition to the Wall Street Crash, and by the end of the twentieth century, Matthieu has been an engineer, a rogue, a movie mogul, a soldier, a financier, a lover to many, a cable TV executive and much more besides. Brilliantly weaving history and personal experience, this is a dazzling story of love, murder, missed chances, treachery - and redemption. Author: Eileen JonesPublisher: N.AISBN: 286Category: LiteracyPage: 32View: 5471Read & Respond: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas provides teacher with a wealth of resources to teach The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. Notes and activities reflect the way that teachers teach now and include shared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speaking and listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidance. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas tells the thought-provoking story about the naivety of a young German boy in the Second World War.
Author: John BoynePublisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)ISBN: Category: Juvenile FictionPage: 160View: 1836The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is another extraordinary historical fiction about World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler.
Pierrot is quickly taken under Hitler's wing and thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets, and betrayal from which he may never be able to escape. This title has Common Core connections. A NovelAuthor: John BoynePublisher: MacmillanISBN: Category: FictionPage: 368View: 8783John Boyne has been heralded as 'one of the most imaginative and adventurous of the young Irish novelists working today' by the Irish Independent. He achieved bestseller status and won numerous awards worldwide for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Now in Next of Kin, he steps into the drawing rooms and private clubs of the prewar English aristocracy to offer an unobstructed view of a social elite driven by the conflicting desires to uphold tradition and to acquire vast wealth. It is 1936, and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs.
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But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic scion of a wealthy family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle's will, for Owen has run up huge gambling debts and casino boss Nicholas Delfy has given him a choice: Find 50,000 pounds by Christmas or find yourself six feet under. So when Owen discovers that he has been cut out of the will in favor of his cousin Stella, he finds that even a royal crisis can provide the means for profit, and for murder. Next of Kin vividly captures the spirit of 1930s London, revealing the secrets of the upperclass, complete with gambling, murder, an art heist, and a conspiracy to unseat the new king that could change the future of the country.
Author: John BoynePublisher: Random HouseISBN: Category: FictionPage: 352View: 4651867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall.
As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor. It is the start of a journey into a world of abandoned children, unexplained occurrences and terrifying experiences which Eliza will have to overcome if she is to survive the secrets that lie within Gaudlin’s walls.
A NovelAuthor: John BoynePublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN: Category: FictionPage: 352View: 1933The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to 'the good.' Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the Irish people's faith in the Catholic Church.
He sees his friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and grows nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insults. At one point, he is even arrested when he takes the hand of a young boy and leads him out of a department store looking for the boy's mother. But when a family event opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within the church, and to recognize his own complicity in their propagation, within both the institution and his own family. A novel as intimate as it is universal, A History of Loneliness is about the stories we tell ourselves to make peace with our lives. It confirms Boyne as one of the most searching storytellers of his generation.