Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
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On her thirteenth birthday in 1942, Anne Frank received a red-checked diary and began to write to an imaginary friend she called Kitty. Her family, Jewish refugees from Germany, had settled in Amsterdam, but as the Nazis tightened their grip on the Netherlands, they were forced into hiding in concealed rooms behind her father's office building.
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This diary records daily life among the eight people sharing that cramped space: the tensions of close quarters, the constant fear of discovery, the small pleasures and quarrels, and Anne's growing inner life as she moves from child toward young woman. Her observations on family, faith, and the wider world are frank and often funny, offering a vivid picture of ordinary life under extraordinary pressure.
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