I saw this movie over the Christmas break and loved it! So I decided to read it for my English project. This book was great yet incredibly sad. Reading about the Holocaust from two 9 year old's point of view was very clever and interesting. Bruno did irritate me a little bit. He would complain about how annoying his sister is or that his house only has three floors instead of five. I mean Shmuel was a Jew who was beaten and starved. I'd like to tell Bruno "try being in his shoes for a day" which he did, and he surely paid for it. It also angered me when Bruno threw Shmuel under the bus by telling Lieutenant Kotler he didn't know who he was and hadn't given him food.UGH!!! Over all this book was great but the ending was extremely depressing.