80 pages 2 hours read

John Boyne

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

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Note to Teachers: To support lesson-planning, connections to the work’s primary themes are noted throughout this resource (Bruno and Shmuel as mirror representations, the everyday consequences of wartime life, and children’s grasp of the ideological complexities of division and war).

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