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The boy in the striped pajamas [electronic resource] / John Boyne.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739348284
- ISBN: 0739348280
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Listening Library ; 2011, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Michael Maloney. |
Summary, etc.: | Guaranteed to spark discussion and debate--this is a tale of two young boys experiencing the Holocaust from different perspectives and getting caught up in terrible events entirely beyond their control. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires RBdigital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
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Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Historical fiction. |