First Year Book Info

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities by Mike Tidwell
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First Year Book Archives
books and activities from previous years
2004 The Stakes by Dr. Shibley Telhami
2003 Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
2002 The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
2001 Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
2000 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
1999 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1998 The Control of Nature by John McPhee & Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1997 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
1996 Einstein's Dreams by Alan P. Lightman
1995 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Willis

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ARCHIVES: The Diary of a Young Girl (1995-96)

Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps.

In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old.

Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.



Diary Illustration

For more on Anne Frank:

* Anne Frank's Center Website

* The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum


[ Last updated on November 7, 2007 ]