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based on the original writings of Anne Frank and on the definitive edition by Mirjam Pressler ; translated by Susan Massotty ; abridged for young readers by Mirjam Pressler ; illustrated by Harry Brockway
283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
illustrations, portraits
Summary: In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, being cut off from the outside world, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak