The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she began writing in her diary. She was hiding with her family in a secret annex in Amsterdam, concealed from the Nazi forces occupying the Netherlands. For two years she wrote about fear, boredom, family tension, first love, dreams for her future and her unshakeable belief that people are good at heart. She did not survive the war. But her diary did. And it has since been read by more than thirty million people in over sixty languages. For any young reader living through conflict, displacement or a world that feels unsafe, Anne Frank's voice reaches across eighty years and says: I understand. I was here too. And I kept writing.