cDKScully
20th January 2005, 04:52 AM
My history background of the 20th century is horrible.
Recently I've been purchasing some YA books (the Dear America series) to educate myself on what I didn't learn in grammar school and high school. My history classes never reached the 20th century. I didn't even know in 7th grade, that the atomic bomb was dropped in Japan.
As I was searching around a closeout site I found this book "Anne Frank and me."
I started reading it the other night and finished it in three nights (before going to bed - I work second shift). Last night I was having trouble sleeping and that's when I finished it.
It reminded me of an afterschool special called "My Mother was never a kid" based on the book "Hanging Out with Cici" by Francine Pascal where a girl doesn't believe her mother was a teenager and finds herself back in the 1940s and befriends her mother.
"Anne Frank and Me" was much more touching and you actually cared about what happened to the characters as well as receiving a history lesson. I was not educated on the Nazis being in France at this time or about the Resistance.
Has anyone else read this fabulous book or saw the play?
Recently I've been purchasing some YA books (the Dear America series) to educate myself on what I didn't learn in grammar school and high school. My history classes never reached the 20th century. I didn't even know in 7th grade, that the atomic bomb was dropped in Japan.
As I was searching around a closeout site I found this book "Anne Frank and me."
I started reading it the other night and finished it in three nights (before going to bed - I work second shift). Last night I was having trouble sleeping and that's when I finished it.
It reminded me of an afterschool special called "My Mother was never a kid" based on the book "Hanging Out with Cici" by Francine Pascal where a girl doesn't believe her mother was a teenager and finds herself back in the 1940s and befriends her mother.
"Anne Frank and Me" was much more touching and you actually cared about what happened to the characters as well as receiving a history lesson. I was not educated on the Nazis being in France at this time or about the Resistance.
Has anyone else read this fabulous book or saw the play?