This book is a classic for all upper elementary students to read. This book is a diary of a young Dutch girl, Anne. The diary is kept from the two years that she is hiding while the Nazis are in control of the Netherlands. Within her diary she wishes for a best friend that she can share her secrets with. She begins the diary with a suiter whom she is not super fond of quite yet. During hiding she thinks that true best friend may eventually be Peter. However, it turns out that throughout her lifetime, her only true friend is her diary. Throughout Anne's diary, readers see her close relationship with her father, her distant relationship with her mother, and her admiration of her sister. As many students this age may relate, Anne becomes the chatterbox of her hideout. In the end, Anne dies in a concentration camp, and her diary was later found and published as a historical, nonfiction text.
This novel would be perfect to teach the history of concentration camps because it gives an insider's account.
This also could be used to teach diary writing and format.
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