The Diary of a Young Girl

Penguin readers

by Cherry Gilchrist

No cover — Cherry Gilchrist: The Diary of a Young Girl (1998, Addison Wesley Longman)

58 pages

English language

Published July 14, 1998 by Addison Wesley Longman.

ISBN:: 978-0-582-40232-4

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Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl—stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry, candid observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death, and the petty frustrations of such confined quarters, Anne writes with adult wisdom and views beyond her years. Her story is that of every teenager, lived out in conditions few teenagers have ever known.

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4 stars

so sweet and earnest that it depresses me. i want to be brave, too. i like that we both have had a root canal in one of our front teeth, it makes me feel better about the fact that my tooth might shatter when i’m older.

edit: im in despair. there are only twenty pages left in the book, and she is writing about how the gentle night sky gives her the courage to go on. i have never been more touched. she is not only courageous in the sense of a hero, but also unflinching in the face of all life’s dangers. she is like a lion bearing its sharp teeth and claws. how could a girl like this…….

update march 20 2022:
anne franks diary ends here =(