For months, the two meet, becoming secret best friends even though they can never play together. He overcomes loneliness and isolation only when he discovers another boy, Shmuel, on the other side of the camp’s fence.
The literal-minded Bruno, with amazingly little political and social awareness, never gains comprehension of the prisoners (all in “striped pajamas”) or the malignant nature of the death camp. 12-16)Īfter Hitler appoints Bruno’s father commandant of Auschwitz, Bruno (nine) is unhappy with his new surroundings compared to the luxury of his home in Berlin. Written with insight, humor and sensitivity, Abdel-Fattah introduces a winning Muslim-Australian heroine who discovers that “honesty is liberating.” (Fiction. Longing to be respected for who she is, Jamilah knows “it takes guts to command that respect and deal with people’s judgments.” She recounts her travails in a chatty first-person, present-tense narration that’s punctuated by transcripts of her e-mail conversations with a boy she knows only as John and whose friendship helps her find her way.
Desperate to fit in at her high school, where she’s known as Jamie, Jamilah dyes her hair blond, wears blue contact lenses, avoids getting close to anyone and is determined no one discover her true heritage. Jamilah attends madrasa where she studies Arabic and plays the darabuka drums in a student band, but she leads a double life. Since her mother died, Jamilah’s overly protective Lebanese father imposes strict curbs on her social life while her hijab-wearing older sister is totally absorbed in political causes and her brother enjoys the freedom she’s denied. A 16-year-old Australian-Muslim-Lebanese teen wonders who she really is as she straddles two cultural realities.
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