Books Like Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz

Gratz's same short-chapter, high-tension style follows three children fleeing danger in different eras, including a Jewish boy escaping Nazi Germany, echoing Yanek's fight to survive.

Alan Gratz

Gratz's same short-chapter suspense, now with a boy spying from inside the Hitler Youth. It is a different angle on Nazi Germany, but it has the same constant sense of danger.

Joseph Bruchac, Derrick Henry

Another World War II story about a young man's courage and identity under pressure. It is based on the real Navajo code talkers and written clearly for younger readers.

Leon Leyson

A real memoir by one of the youngest people on Schindler's list. It describes a boy's survival in Kraków and the camps, very close to Jack Gruener's experience.

Anne Frank

The essential firsthand account of a Jewish teenager in hiding. It offers the same personal, human view of the Holocaust that makes Yanek's story so powerful.

Elie Wiesel

For older or more mature readers ready for more, this is a short, unforgettable memoir of a teenage boy surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald alongside his father.

Lois Lowry

A gentler entry point than Yanek's story. A Danish girl helps her Jewish friend escape the Nazis, and the book highlights the courage and kindness of ordinary people.

Markus Zusak

For stronger teen readers, this novel is set in Nazi Germany and centres on a family hiding a Jewish man. It shares the theme of humanity surviving darkness.

Carol Matas

A middle-grade novel following a Jewish boy from Frankfurt through the ghetto and the camps. It suits readers who valued Yanek's resilience and youthful perspective.

Art Spiegelman

A landmark graphic memoir of the author's father's survival of Auschwitz, best for older readers. It offers another true, deeply personal account like Jack Gruener's.

Loic Dauvillier

A gentle graphic novel in which a grandmother tells how she was hidden as a Jewish child in France. It is accessible for younger readers moved by Yanek.

Liz Kessler

Three friends in 1930s Vienna are pulled apart by the Nazis. It is a recent, emotional novel inspired by true events, with the same urgency as Gratz's book.