Anne Frank hoped that one day she would be a published author. She couldn't have known that the diary she kept while in hiding from the Nazis would become one of the most widely-read accounts of World War II. With her sharp observations, wit, and optimism, teenage Anne described her narrow world in the secret Annex, where her family and four other Jewish refugees hid for two years. Her diary didn't shy away from the hardships they experienced. Anne may have been frustrated at the injustices Jews faced, but she remained confident that the war would end and goodness would come to the world again. In the midst of it all, Anne's readers see an average teenage girl growing up in incredibly difficult circumstances. Young people today read her diary and see themselves in her. Travel with Anne from her home in Amsterdam to her hiding place in her father's office, and see how a young girl's diary continues to touch millions.

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