In soaring prose, bestselling author Alice Hoffman brings Anne Frank to life on the page, drawing from her extensive research in Europe and the United States, to depict her experiences from the moment the Nazis invade the Netherlands until her family is forced into hiding in the annex of her father's office building at 263 Prinsengracht, in Amsterdam.
As state-sponsored discrimination turns ordinary people into monsters, the Jews of the Netherlands are caught in an inescapable swell of violence and hate, and Anne is shaped as both a young woman and as a writer who will change the world.
WHEN WE FLEW AWAY features archival content provided by the Anne Frank House, as well as information about Otto Frank's desperate bids to get his family to safety in America gathered from correspondence between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr., from the Straus Historical Society's Archives.
| ISBN: | 9780702335167 |
| Publication date: | 17th September 2024 |
| Author: | Alice Hoffman, Anne Frank House |
| Publisher: | Scholastic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
True Stories Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees Children’s / Teenage fiction: Military and war fiction Historical Fiction PSHE: Bereavement and Grief Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural |