This is the personal diary of Anne Frank during her and her family’s hiding during the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. This diary is written during a two year period. This book covers the themes of World War II, hunger, isolation, fear, inhumanity, family, distrust, and
courage. Students will find this book captivating.

I LOVE THIS BOOK I would give it all 5 stars but it was sad and hard to think about back then if you were a jew.They punised harshly.I would recomed this book but you need a box of clean x and you can not read it in public. ( )

"Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" is to powerful to be adequately expressed in words. At the end I was in tears and so sad. The power in the story is not just not that Anne Frank dies in a concentration camp (I don't think this is a spoiler since it should be common knowledge) but in the hope and fear that Frank express throughout the diary.

The story is compelling because Anne Frank the reader gets to see a 13 year old girl develop while hiding in a back attic (apartment) during the holocaust. The reader gets to see her go though all the emotional and developmental changes that teenage girls go through. They get to read about her dream of being a reporter. Her appreciation for the Dutch people for not only hiding them but taking them in as refuges before the Germans conquered the country. Anne expresses her disassociation with her parents and the mixed feelings that age and Independence bring to the parent-child relationship. It is all there pain, hope, frustration, happiness.

Even knowing how Anne's story ends I couldn't help but hoping for her.

On another note: I really enjoy reading not only nonfiction books but also historical fiction but sometimes they put the world in order. For instance I know the time period that the holocaust happen. I know about Gandhi. But to put them together and to see how Gandhi's words affected Anne Frank and her family is eye opening. When in school there is a tendency to look at bits and pieces of history and disconnect places and events. Reading story like this mesh them together and gives people a boarder more encompassing view of the world.

Pros: Writing, Characters, Everything
Cons: Sad

Overall Recommendation:

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is most definitely now a favorite book. It is a real tear jerkier so keep a box of tissues with you and don't read it in a public place. ( )

i thought that this was a great book. its amazing. its not as powerful as getting to hear a holocaust survivor speak but its powerful. hearing a holocaust survivor speak is so powerful. everything you hear or read about the holocaust is shocking and almost unbelieveable. this is also the first holocaust book that i read. ( )

This is the true story ofa young Jewish girl named Anne Frank. For her 13th birthday she received a diary and named it Kitty. In the diary she talks about the Nazi's sending a notice for her dad and sister departure for a concentration camp. The family flees to a hiding place and are joined by the Vans. The diary is about her life in hiding with her family and the Vans.

This is a very moving book. It really gave me a understanding of things that Jewish people went through.

For a classroom extension students would read a chapter in the diary and then we would discuss how the felt about it. They could always start their own diaries of their lives.