num_pages: 427
description: 'One of the greatest books of the century' - Guardian'Hiding...where would we hide?... Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary...'In July 1942 thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne vividly describes in her diary the frustrations of living in such confined quarters.This unabridged, definitive text reveals Anne's innermost thoughts and feelings as she grows up, and provides a deeply moving true-life story that comes to an abrupt and tragic end.Contains an Afterword, chronology of events and glossary of terms.
language: English
title: The Diary of a Young Girl
titlecomplete: The Diary of a Young Girl  
characters: Margot Frank, Anne Frank, Peter van Daan, Albert Dussel, Miep Gies, Petronella van Daan, Edith Frank, Hermann van Daan, Otto Frank
genres: Historical, History, Classics, School, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Holocaust, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3569972
places: Amsterdam
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Luisterboek Award
publisher: Puffin Books