Buy Bamboo People Special: $13.69 (Regular price: $16.95) Publisher: Charlesbridge Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on June 29, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars I’d never read anything by Mitali Perkins before I had the chance to check out her new novel, Bamboo People, but the story sounded like something I’d want to check out [...]

If you haven’t read it yet, then TheBoyInTheStripedPajamas is a great, new tale about the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy who has an SS officer for a father. Despite the divides of race and politics, the young Bruno develops a lasting friendship with Shmuel, a Jewish boy in the concentration camp that his Bruno’s father runs.