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I have this on a children's shelf, but it's not for kids. The author says it's for people a bit older than our protagonist, Bruno.
I originally gave this book five stars in passing as a book I read for school in seventh grade. Further analysis leads me to the conclusion that this book is a tasteless mess. The writing is unbearable and definitely American. Names like Fuhrer or Auschwitz were replaced with Out-With and Fury, which doesn't make sense when the main character speaks German.
Bruno is nine but reads about five. He would be in the Hitler Youth at this point and definitely wouldn't think 'Heil Hitler' is a cheeky way to say goodbye. Nonetheless, his naivete remains a key factor of the book. At age twelve, my teachers were hammering it in that this is a ~sad reality~ story. It was emotional manipulation with the goal of getting my classmates to stop making Hitler jokes, clearly. Bruno and Shmuel [die at the end, both of them forced into a gas chamber.] This was obviously with the intention to make a point about how we're all the same.

Anyway, this book rings insensitive and cash-grabby. Sorry to leave a bad review on a Holocaust book, but this is just wrong.