The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Deluxe Illustrated Edition)

Ameesha - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Book Review- Ameesha Bruno a nine year old boy from Germany, story starts when he comes home to find one of his house maids going through his personal things and packing them in crates. He finds out that he is moving away from his 3 best friends, comfortable house and is going to a place where there would be no friends for him to play with other than his 12 year old sister, who Bruno tells us is a Hopeless case. He is told countless times by his father that his job, which is the reason why they moved to their new house Out-With will change their lives forever. He has a completely different view of how this house will change his life forever. Bruno had to live in a place where his father's soldiers walking in and out of the house especially one Lieutenant Kotler in particular who gives Bruno the creeps. Bored of the house, Bruno decides to go exploring to find his curiosity lingering to a strange barb wired fence. This fence plays a role of separating 2 different worlds. Bruno meets a boy, Shmuel who wears striped pajamas and makes Bruno long to wear it as a costume. As their relationship grows older Bruno’s best friend grows weaker. The book ends in a devastating way and you might end in tears. This is a heart-warming, young adult story shown in a child's perspective of the Nazy war. The book showed the innocence and purity of children. I give this book and 4 and a half stars out of 5 because I thought that this book could have improved by explaining a couple of the scenes which where just left hanging at the end of the book. I would recommend this book to anyone that is over the age of 10.