Hide-And-Seek (Foul Play)

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Summary: I think this is a very good book.
Review: As a sixth grader I really enjoyed the book Hide And Seek. The story was about a little girl named Rachel who lived with her parent's and her sister. Rachel was only eight years old when the Nazis invaded Holland. And then the changes begin. Rachel coulen't go to her school any more, and she wasn't allowed to enter the park. And the Nazis took Rachel's bike away. Finally, she was forced to wear a yellow star- all because she was a Jewish girl. When the Nazis closed in, Rachel's family went into hiding, Rachel's family was moving house to house in the middle of the night. I liked this book because it was interesting.

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Summary: Hide and Seek
Review: During a time of war, families are split apart, confusion is prevalent and innocent people get hurt. World War Two is the setting for Ida Vos's Hide and Seek. The Hartog family lives in a small town near Holland and knows that the invasion of the Germans is inevitable. The Hartog's are a prominent Jewish family and contribute much to their community. Their oldest daughter, Rachel, experiences racial prejudice first hand.
Rachel and her family are forced to go into hiding as the Germans take over their city. The family is eventually split apart and Rachel has no way of communicating with her parents. Day by day she receives a total of deaths and can not help but feel overwhelmed that her family members may be one of those numbers.
Ida Vos allows the reader to feel the hurt and confusion that Rachel goes through. The questions that Rachel asks about the hatred of some people only contribute to the emotions of the reader. As one reads, they are lost in the setting and time of this war and feel as if they were there along side of Rachel.


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Summary: It's one of the best books I've ever read!!!
Review: HI!!I'm a 7th grader from Turkey,and I think this is fabulous!Even if you only read horror books,try this one and if you like reading about the 2nd World War,it'd be a shame if you don't read this book.
Anyway,Hide and Seek is the amazing story of Rachel,her parents and her younger sister Esthel and their struggle to survive through the hard times when Hitler was in power,killing all the Jews.Rachel's life changes a lot and becomes very dangerous.At first,she's not allowed to go to her school,then she can't go swimming or to the library,next sitting on a bench is forbidden,and she has the last stroke when she was told that she had to go into hiding with her family.
Well,I won't tell more;you must read it yourselves.Don't forget;it's certainly worth reading!!

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Summary: First book I ever read in the present tense
Review: I first read this book at twelve, and I believe that one of the reasons it's been so unforgettable to me is the fact that I had never read a book written in the present tense before and hadn't known a book could be written in anything but the past tense. It inspired me to use the present tense in my own writing; in this book, the present tense coupled with the tense times and situations the Hartog family must go through makes the story more compelling, immediate, haunting, and page-turning. A story written in the past tense tells us that everything has already happened, but in the present tense, we're living right in each new moment and don't know what might happen next.

I didn't really take notice of this till I recently read it again for the third time, but time really does pass too quickly here; we aren't told how much time has passed between most of the events, and Rachel, who was eight years old in 1940 when the book began, is turning twelve years old in hiding when the book is only about half over. But it only makes sense; Rachel and her little sister Esther are just young children and wouldn't have the same perception of time that an older person would. A person who experienced these events as a teenager or adult would certainly tend to remember in detail how much time had passed after each important event and what all they were doing during the time periods that weren't written about, but a young child is more likely to remember things and people than specifics about the exact passage of time or every little thing that happened. And Rachel sees everything through the eyes of a child, not a mature adult who would have more perspective on these events.

Though the family is happily reunited at the end (even with Rachel and Esther's maternal grandparents), the way Ida Vos and her little sister were reunited with their parents after the war, the story doesn't end there like some childrens' books on this subject might. The family still has to come to terms with all of the missing and dead friends and relatives, finding a new house, catching up in school, having to break out of habits they acquired while in hiding or in the camps (such as Rachel and Esther praying a Christian prayer before meals and their grandfather stealing old bread from garbage cans), and readjust to doing all of the things they were forbidden to do before, like ride bikes, go to school, walk around freely, go swimming, and go shopping whenever they want to. Though it's for a younger audience and thus can't go into the same harrowing detail that an adult book of this nature would, it gets the story and its impact across powerfully.

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Summary: A heart racing thriller
Review: I recommend this book to anyone who loves thriller novels. I also recommend this book for ages 10 and older, because this book has very scary parts. This book is a bit frightening and interesting. It is also about friendship. I liked this book because for example, Lissa confides in Brian, the boy in Lissa's English class. Brian states, "I'll never do anything to let you down," he said. "Day after day, I'll be honest with you, and I'll never intentionally hurt you. After about seven thousand and eight days of this, you'll begin to realize that this is something you can count on - that I'm someone you can count on." Now Lissa can tell Brian about her fathers violent ways. I also like this book because it makes it interesting when Lissa talks about her past with her friends. She says, "No, I won't say I'm going to die, I have to think about the happy times in my life. I can't think about dying. Not now, not yet, not ever." When she said this it just made me want to read more about what was happening to her, and who was trying to kill her.

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Summary: If you liked this book...
Review: I think Hide and Seek was one of the best books i ever read! Rachel goes through some verry hard times during World war 2 when the nazis take over.i wont tell you any more or i will tell you the hole story but you need to think about this when you read this book. Rachel has to hide in order to servive!

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Summary: Startling, unsettling, and realistic
Review: Ida Vos' book Hide and Seek is written in short chapters that present snippets from the life of the main character, Rachel Hartog, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Rachel's first person, present tense narrative draws the reader into her experiences and increases their intensity. As the Nazi persecution of Jews increases, Rachel and her family go into hiding to escape being deported to concentration camps. Readers experience Rachel and her family's fears and hopes, culminating with the defeat of Germany and their freedom from hiding. The Hartog family must then rejoin the outside world--facing the horrible truth that most of their family and friends were murdered in concentration camps.

The treasure of this book is its details--Vos acknowledges at the end of the book that the story of Rachel Herzog is her own, and that she has tried to record her time in hiding as accurately as possible. Details such as Rachel and her sister's intense fear of going outside after the German defeat, caused by their many years of living inside in fear of discovery, and the letters her family received telling them of their relatives deaths in concentration camps add so much depth to the illustration of what it was like to have been Jewish in those times, to have been in hiding, and to have survived.

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Summary: The easy-read Anne Frank
Review: This book is about a girl named Rachel, who is a Jew in the Holacust period. She has to follow a bunch of stupid rules the crazy Nazies made up for the Jews. She has to wear a yellow star of David, so that way everyone knows she is a Jew. She can't play hide and seek, play in the park, go to public school, or even sit on a bench! Then, the Nazies start taking the Jews away to consencration camps, and many would never come back. To be safe, Rachel and her family go into hiding. The only thing I did not like about this book is time passed to quickly. Why, Rachel was 12 before I even got half way through the book! This book is almost like an easy-read Anne Frank. (I'd recomend that ages 11 and up) This is a great book. Ida Vos should be famous!
I recommend it ages 8-12.