Nicole Burns is an Internet queen, devoted to her cyber diary
and the unattainable boy of her dreams. She tries to take her
social studies Holocaust unit seriously. But she wonders, what
does ancient history have to do with surviving teenage life
today?
A violent accident of fate soon answers her intellectual puzzling.
At her class field trip to an Anne Frank exhibit, shots seem
to ring out and group panic thunderously erupts. ÊNicole feels
a sharp pain at the back of her head. Then the world as she
knows it goes black.
When she awakens, she seems to have been transported back in
time. She is no longer the American 'Net-head Nicole. She is
a young Jew in France, confronted by the Nazi occupation during
World War II -- eventually in the company of the famous Anne
Frank, herself.
Bennett and Gotsfeld do a reasonable job depicting kids in
the new millennium. But they shine with tenderness and understanding,
painting the portrait of love and longing of young adults trapped
in the bitter throws of genocide and war. If "The Diary of Anne
Frank," left you hungry for an even greater understanding, "Anne
Frank and Me" is a book you'll want to explore.
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