Written by: Anne Frank House
First line: Jeroen only has a few days left to gather up some old things for the Queen's Day flea market.
Why you should read this book: This plot-heavy piece of historical fiction uses a modern day frame and a graphic format to tell the interlinking stories of several young people's experiences in the Netherlands during World War II. Jeroen finds an old scrapbook in his grandmother's attic, and his grandmother tells him about her childhood best friend, her brothers, her own work for the resistance, and the effect the Nazi invasion had on the people of the Netherlands. Jeroen comes away with a new understanding of what Memorial Days means for people of his grandmother's generation and manages to bring unimaginable joy to the lives of two elderly women.
Why you should read this book: You haven't yet read the Diary of Anne Frank.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
A Family Secret
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