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Summary: Important Book about the Holocaust written for teens!
Review: As a Jewish educator for more than 20 years, it is refreshing to read a book about the Holocaust to which teens can relate. This book not only offers consistent and accurate details of the horrow experienced by 6 million, it also offers an overall setting that is intreging. This is definitely a must read for junior high school students. There are also themes that are presented for older teens that if focused correctly by the instructor can allow students to search for answers to questions they, themselves, are struggling with in their lives today. The combination of historical data and current issues is what helps to make this book so very important.
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Summary: A BOOK YOU MUST READ
Review: Nicole Burns is regular teenager in America, who has a website and calls herself 'Girl X'. In school she is given an assignment to read The Diary of Anne Frank, but she doesn't read it. On a school field trip to an Anne Frank exhibit, gun fire is heard, and while trying to get out of the exhibit, Nicole blacks out. When she awakes she is in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She is faced with decisions. I read this book in one day, I couldn't put it down. Everyone should read this book, it's great!
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Summary: Anne Frank and Me
Review: I love to read and loved reading this story. Anne Frank and Me is touching, forces you to think and not take what we have for granted. I recommend it. It will stay with you. A MUST READ FOR ALL TEENAGERS!!!!
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Summary: Real, Relevant and Riveting
Review: Anne Frank and Me tells the story of a very modern girl, with normal adolescent concerns that seem very important to her: will the boy she loves even notice her, how will she ever put up with her annoying little sister and "does this dress make me look fat". Then after an accident she wakes to find herself in German occupied France in 1942, as a Jewish girl surrounded by hatred and fear. Her concerns quickly change to will they have food to eat, will she see ever see her friends again, will she and her family survive until the Allies arrive. One of Cheri Bennett's great strengths is her ability to capture the inner world of the modern teenager. Her characters act, talk and think like real adolescents not TV or cartoon versions of them (as a child psychologist I can vouch for this). By telling the story through the eyes of a young teenager, this story of the Holocaust becomes intimately and personally real. Although clearly great efforts were made to ensure the historical accuracy of the events portrayed, this is no boring history lesson; instead it is a compelling narrative. I would say Anne Frank and Me would be as extremely relevant for any teenager today both in understanding a significant time in history but also in gaining insight into themselves. I was first familiar with Anne Frank and Me the play, which I found to be a very powerful and meaningful piece. Therefore I was eager to see the evolution of this story in its novel form. Although true to the play the characters and story line were developed so skillfully that it became a totally new and gratify narrative experience. I would recommend this book highly for anyone seeking a better understanding of what it would be like to live through the Holocaust and how it has great meaning in their life today.
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Summary: The Road to Truth
Review: What does a mod, hip, Internet-surfing American teen-age girl have in common with a puberty-driven, would-be writer, icon-to-be, locked away in an early 1940s, Amsterdam, Holland, annex? Seemingly little, until their worlds merge on September 3, 1944, when both find themselves en route to the hell known as Auschwitz. How does this all happen? Ah, therein lies the tale. And, with Cherie Bennett the spinner-driver and Jeff Gottesfeld the navigator, the reader is in for a wondrous ride indeed. ANNE FRANK AND ME unfolds in that ever-whimsical, ever-evolving world of teen angst. Nicole Burns is too busy for homework, for family, and nearly for historical truth. Only a sudden, bizarre incident saves Nicole from going down the road of Holocaust denial. The journey Nicole takes as her Jewish alter ego, though, is rough, shocking, and tortuous, even though, ultimately, liberating. Nicole Bernhardt finds 1942 Paris a world of Jewish restriction, harassment, and, eventually, confinement. Within the dual Nicoles, though, a gleam of realization begins to dawn. The new Nicole perceives, correctly, that those who do not seek to find the truth are bound, in some measure, to suffer from that failure. When Nicole encounters Anne, Nicole's words are measured, for she knows then the truth in a way that Anne Frank cannot. No young reader can walk away from this book unchanged, anymore than Nicole could escape her ultimate fate. Historical truth, even in a fictional world, demanded it. (Bill Younglove, Mandel Fellow, 1999-2000)
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Summary: Best book i've ever read
Review: To be honest when I first got the book, I was distacted by the size(it is a little over 250 pages). I never really read books that big at one time. I did not know how long it would take me untill a couple hours later when I realized I wad already on page 200. This book was SO GOOD it flew right by. The book is now my favorite book. It is by far the best work that Cherie and Jeff have ever done. While i was reading this book part of me wanted to finish it to see what happend, but part of me knew that when I finshed it would be over and I just wanted to keep reading this wonderful book. The book took my breath away. No matter what kind's of books you like to read you will like this one. Its got a little bit of everything for you to enjoy. I recomend you go out and get it, it will honsetly change your outlook on many things!
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Summary: Anne Frank and Me is AWESOME!!!!
Review: Anne Frank and me is a wonderful book to read if you want info about the holacaust or just wanna read an excelent book. This book makes it feel as if you are right there with Nicole. It is such a good book I might just have to buy it. At first it seems like this book is a hopeless love between Nicole and "J"(as she calls him) but it turns out to be a real adventure for this high tech sort of girl. Cherie Bennett is more that a great author she is awesome. If you like this book I definetly recomend to read others cause they are all really good. Especially LIFE IN THE FAT LANE.
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Summary: This Captivating Book Will Take You On A Journey To The Past
Review: Maybe you're Jewish. Maybe not. Maybe you've read The Diary of Anne Frank. Maybe you read the cliff notes because you didn't want to read it. Maybe you believe that Halocaust never happened. Or maybe you're like me, an average girl who is still confused about what to believe in. This is not "another book about Anne Frank," if that's what you're thinking. And it's not a "boring book that a teacher made me read in school." Instead, it is a book far more moving than any other book on the Halocaust that I have ever read. Meet Nicole Burns. A 15-year-old Christian, who doesn't completely understand the Jewish faith until she is forced to go back in time and experpience it during one of the most trying times in history: The Halocaust. This is not your average young-adult book. It's not just for teens, but for anyone who wants to be captivated and taken to a new place. By the time you finish this book, you will feel that you have, infact, visited the horrific Halocaust. There are a lot of different views on what happened in the Halocaust, even a question as to whether or not Anne Frank's diary is true. However, all of your questions will be answered in truth through this amazing book. Bennett and Gottesfeld, known for touching millions of readers, take readers to a new level in this epic, a true journey to the past. Open this book, and you're opening a treasure that you will cherish for the rest of your life.
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Summary: So wonderful I couldn't put it down!
Review: I had been hearing rave reviews about the play "Anne Frank and me" and I was excited to have a chance to read the novel version. I was not disappointed. It was the most witty, intelligent, honest Young Adult novel I have read in a very long time, if not the ever. Cherie and Jeff have done a fantastic job not only conveying the angst teen girls all over the world go through on a daily basis (unrequited love, the mind-numbing spirit destroying hell of high school, not being able to connect with your parents) but they were able to deal with one of the most serious subjects in history--the Holocaust. I feel that this book should be put on to the reading lists of schools all over America--it really brought the horrors of an old historical event that isn't extremely relevant to a middle-class Protestant young adult to life. Buy this book--you won't regret it!
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Summary: Teaching Us How To Teach The Holocaust
Review: The novelized version of Bennett's extremely successful play, Anne Frank and Me, will engage students who are barely older than the teenage Anne Frank in a truthful, serious, and artistic conversation about the Holocaust. It offers a pedagogy even while it entertains as art, raising the questions serious artists of the Holocaust raise, the questions which specifically and intentionally contribute new perspectives to our understanding of the Holocaust. At the same time, Bennett and Gottesfeld let the victims speak for themselves. This novel teaches us how to teach the Holocaust by recreating an ordinary teenage life as a way for us to imagine the ordinariness of Anne Frank's life. Just as Anne Frank could only write the reality of her present and not the reality of her untimely death, so too the protagonist of this deeply felt novel remains deaf to history but perfectly tuned-in to her present in the way that only a 15-year old girl--across time--can be. I have taught the play, and now the novel, to college undergraduates with great success and find that this story reaches them in places that even such a masterpiece as Elie Wiesel's Night cannot. I strongly recommend it to readers of all ages and encourage educators to use it in the classroom--either as part of the Holocaust curriculum or simply as an extraordinary piece of historical fiction.
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