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Summary: A Story No One Will Forget...
Review: I have read many young adult books about the Holocaust. I've read ones by Jane Yolen ("The Devil's Arthmitic") and a great one about Han Nolen about a Neo-Nazi girl ("If I Should Die Before I Wake"). Although I have loved most of the books I've have read, this story was one I will never forget. It takes place in contemorary America in a surburbian town. The main character is a tenth grader named Nicole. Any young girl can relate to her, as I know I have and I'm not in tenth grade yet. She has a crush on a boy named Jack, has an online journal (which is very "hip" now a days) and a boy named David has a crush on her. She has an annoying little sister and a crazy best friend named Mimi. I read a bunch of reviews and when I first saw it, I began to think that this was another overused plotline: Contemporary girl goes back in time and becomes a Jew...blah, blah. I soon read "Anne Frank And Me" and began to think I was wrong. Although, yes it did have a similar plotline, and yes Nicole turned into a Jewish girl and learned her lesson, this was different. Everyone from Nicole's contemporary life was in her Jewish one. For example, her "English teacher" was her mother and her "principal" was her father. She had a younger sister named Liz-Bet (her contemporary sister was Elizabeth). Her crush Jack from the contemporary life is actually Jacques in the Jewish one and they are dating. Her best friend Mimi is also her best friend in her Jewish life, and (in the Jewish life) Jacques' twin sister. I'm sure everyone is wondering where did the title come from? Many of us teenagers/people have heard of Anne Frank, a young Jewish teenager who hide in a apartment with another family and wrote in her diary. But what does this have to do with Nicole? The title "Anne Frank and Me" comes up because near the end of the book, Nicole is transported to a concentration camp where Anne was also transported in real life. They meet up on the cattle car [train] and begin talking. Nicole tells Anne that she read her diary and Anne thinks that this is a joke. Nicole doesn't remember how she read it but she told Anne fasely that she would "become a famous writer. You will break a million hearts." And at this, I end my review. For who wants to know the end before they begin the beginning?
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Summary: Anne Frank and me
Review: I think this book is a really great oppertunity to learn about the Holocaust and at the same time (for girls), to feel the same way that the main character does.She's just an average(?) 16 year old girl. She starts out at the 21st century, and ends up in 1942!In this book , you'll meet anne frank, and some made up characters that play a huge role. this book (by a 10-year old's point of view)Is a book that everybody should read.By the way-Even though I'm 10 years old, I reccomend this book to 12 and up peoples, because of innapropriatte language and other stuff like that.
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Summary: Anne Frank and Me
Review: Anne Frank and Me is one of the best books I have ever read. I couldn't put it down. It captured my attention from the beginning because I connected with the main character Nicole. She thought that nothing could go right for her. Come to find out when she entered the life of a Jewish girl nothing was going right there either. This book had so many twists that I had to finsih it while sitting at the dining room table with my whole family watching me...that is how good it was.
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Summary: One of The Best Books I've Ever Read!!!
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. And that is saying something, because this school year I read over one-hundred books. I am half-Jewish and very interested in the Holocaust. I have seen books that tell everything you need to know about it- the important people, who won and why, what Hitler's idea of a perfect German woman was, who was on which side, and what happened to the poor gypsies and jews.
But, excluding THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (which I am not yet allowed to read)this is the only book I have come across that tells you what it is like to be there, scared. The main character is named Nicole. She loves to dance, has average looks, and has a major crush on a boy named Jack, who in turn likes her friend Suzanne, who is sweet and has strawberry-blond hair. Being so typical, it is pretty obvious that she spends Literature class thinking about Jack the hottie instead of listening to Mrs. Litzer-Gold, a Holocaust survivor. (Note that I say Holocaust, not WW2. It is so much more than a war). But then she, along with some family and friends, gets warped back into the Holocaust. She becomes Jewish. This is a book of sadness, of death, of fear, of friendship, of hope, of faith in God (or G-d, sorry)and of love. If you read this book you will never forget it. Please take my word for it that this book will touch you heart more than any Jacks of the real world will. Keep this book on your bedside table. Keep it for whenever you need a laugh, an adventure, or a little touch of mechalony.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: "Anne Frank and Me" taking you into a world on a teenage girl named Nicole Burns. She is so wrapped up in all the boys, skipping classes and shopping she doesnt think twice about the importent things in life, like love, health, family and true friends. Then watch how this younge socail Mtv girl, wakes up to live in the holusost and her life changes forever. Soon, she isent sitting around watching Tv and going into every store of the shopping mall, but hiding for her life. Will she ever go home? Will she forget who she is? Is her 2000 life all a dream? Read this fantastic book "Anne Frank and Me" by Cherie Bernnett and Jeff Gottfeld to go along and an amazing journey into the past!
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Summary: Mesmerizing
Review: This was an excellent book. I couldn't put it down and I don't even like to read. At some parts I almost broke down in tears. This is a tragic, yet entracing book and I strongly recommend it for anyone between grades 6 and 9. This has become one of my favorite books.
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Summary: A book that you can't help loving
Review: I recently read this masterpiece of literature and it was toooottttaaaallllyyyy fascinating!!! it really makes you realise how many people died in those wars and it shows that wars should be prevented in the future. I really enjoyed it, and i can definitely reccomend it to you and everyone else who enjoys historical fiction.
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Summary: Awesome Book- Anne Frank and Me
Review: ...Have you ever woken up in a different body? Well, Nicole Burn has. At the beginning of the book she is learning about World War II, but does not understand it. Then, she is knocked out during a shooting at an Anne Frank exhibit and finds herself in a Jewish girl's body during World War II, growing up and getting through the war. "When the Nazi death grip tightens over France, Nicole is forced into hiding, and begins a struggle for survival which brings her face to face with Anne Frank." History gets new meaning for Nicole.
Imagine having to spend three years in a different body, not knowing what the outcome will be, and whether you will survive, not knowing if you will ever return to your past self, and having to face the fears and frights of a different time, not knowing if it is a dream, or even a joke. Nicole has to learn to take this new life seriously, even though it is different.
Benett and Gottesfeld really make you feel like you are in the characters' shoes. Nicole's problems suddenly seem to be yours too. This makes the book a page turner you can't put it down.
They also make the characters seem like real people, not action figures or super stars. For example, Nicole and her sister disagree a lot, just like real people do. Also, Nicole and her sister have an experience many real people shared during World War II - going into hiding. You find ways that you can relate to them.
I really enjoyed this book with a mix of history and fiction. If you read it, you'll learn a lot and get a great read. It gives you a different perspective on things and teaches you not to take any thing for granted. I recommend this book to any gender. People who enjoy history and novels would have a great time reading this book!
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Summary: Quick education about The Holocaust
Review: Though this book is a quick, easy read, it contains information and graphic descriptions that make it difficult to put down. Although I am not a big fan of the writing (which reminds me I'm reading fiction and not REALLY there), I think the content is important. This would make a great book to give kids some information about the Holocaust.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER!!!
Review: I have read so may books and this has to be the best I have read EVER!!! Anne Frank and Me is based on the story of a girl named Nicole Burns. When Nicole is learning about the Holocaust, and Anne Frank, in school, she doubts the existence of Anne. Then, while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit in a local museum, bangs emerge from a nearby corridor. During the chaos, Nicole is separated from her friend, falls, and then everything goes black. She wakes up on a couch surrounded by her mother (who looks like her teacher), father (who looks just like her principal), and her sister (who looks just like her sister during current times). She also wakes up a Jewish teenager in the year 1942 in Paris, France. Her best friend is her best friend in 1942 and her crush is her boyfriend. She learns to adapt to this new lifestyle and, in a few months, forgets all about her life in 2000.
One night, while staying at a friend's (who is a Jewish girl not born in France) house, Nicole is taken, with the family she is staying the night with, by the Nazis who were collecting the foreign-born Jews and bringing them to Vel d'Hiv, a sports arena. Eventually her father comes to pick her up but, because he is a doctor, helps some of the sick people. A few years later, Nicole, her mother, and her sister find out that her father is a Resistance fighter. Soon after, Nicole and her family have to hide out in an attic. Then, late one night, a bomb exploded in a French police station, which had her friend's abd boyfriend's brother in there. Resistance fighters had set off the bomb. In the midst of all this chaos, Nicole father is injured and dies, her boyfriend and friend both die, and Nicole and her sister are separated from her mother and sent to Drancy, a concentration camp. On the train on the way to Drancy, she meets the real Anne Frank. The two girls talk for a while before Anne asks what happens to her, to which Nicole replies, "You will become a famous author and break a million hearts." Once they arrive at Drancy... well I can't give the ending away but she goes back to current times. READ THIS BOOK! You can even write to the author via email because she leaves her email address.
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