SayFair Books.

Shadow Life:
A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family
By
Barry Denenberg
$16.95 (h/c)

Readers of Anne Frank's diary will learn more about her, and the world in which she and her family lived in this thoroughly researched volume.  After explaining the facts surrounding World War II and the Holocaust, the author follows the Franks from Frankfurt to Amsterdam where they hoped to resume a normal life, but instead were forced into hiding.  In creating a fictional diary from Margot Frank's perspective, Denenberg introduces a new voice from the family's two years in hiding.  Finally, the book recounts what happened to the family members when they were discovered and sent to concentration camps, and describes Otto Frank's post war efforts to find his daughters and ultimately publish Anne's diary.  Ages 10+.

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