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Loading... The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. An essential for every home library. (  )1   AmyElizabeth | Nov 5, 2009 |  While The Book Thief is the best fictional account of the Holocaust, The Diary of Anne Frank is the best non-fictional account of the Holocaust (and is one of the few actual items that has survived history). The Diary of Anne Frank is incredibly heartbreaking; however, the most ironic thing is that parents want to censor this book because Anne mentions her period a few times. (  ) 06nwingert | Oct 31, 2009 | I had mixed feelings about this book although I felt for Anne and what she was going through I was hurt by the way she treated her mother. I understand she was a teenager and we all know how teenagers can get but she must of known that any given day would be the last day she ever saw her mother. I have to say she was a lively person and at times made you forget about the unusual circumstances. I loved the innocent way she described her relationship with Peter and the witty ways she portrayed the other characters in hiding. I felt a pain in my heart when I read what happened to each one of these persons and had to remind myself that I had not lost someone personally. Unforgettable!! (  )1 Natalie220 | Oct 28, 2009 | Reviewed by Nell (Class of 2010) (  )1 |  HHS-Students | Oct 22, 2009 | Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com This is the diary of the most courageous fourteen-year-old girl to ever live. Anne Frank lived during the time of World War II, when you could be killed or put in a concentration camp for being Jewish -- or for not being blue-eyed and blonde. Hitler was ignorant in thinking that those with blue eyes and blonde hair were of the superior race, and anyone else should be killed. Anne and her family went into hiding in 1942 and managed to hide for over two years. Was Hitler finally overruled or was the family found by the Gestapo (the police that worked for Hitler)? Read this novel about a normal teenager in hiding to find out. This is a really good book to read if you want to learn more about World War II, or simply about being courageous and living a life in hiding. Also, not only is this novel about the war but also about how Anne grows up and discovers life and writing. ( )1 GeniusJen | Oct 9, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0553296981, Paperback)A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity. The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?). Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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