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Annexed

by Sharon Dogar
Annexed

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ISBN13: 9780547501956
ISBN10: 0547501951
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Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her?

In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you’re being written about in Anne’s diary, day after day? What’s it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.

As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them?

Anne’s diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter’s story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz – and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex’s occupants.

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"While Annexed does not depend upon a prior reading of The Diary of a Young Girl for interest or understanding, readers of that book will appreciate the opportunity to see Anne Frank's story given a benefit it could not have: hindsight."--The Horn Book, starred review

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"While Annexed does not depend upon a prior reading of The Diary of a Young Girl for interest or understanding, readers of that book will appreciate the opportunity to see Anne Frank's story given a benefit it could not have: hindsight."—The Horn Book, starred review

"Readers are enlightened and deeply moved....Annexed is a superb addition to the Holocaust literature, and should not be missed."—School Library Journal, starred review

"Showing equal skill in bringing history to life and in capturing the spirit of a young man searching for his identity amid chaos, Dogar has written a novel as provocative as it is devastating."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The lines between written record, educated guess, and fictional construct are fascinatingly blurred here. . .made all the more so when readers consider the role perspective, translation, and editing play in the written record. The book’s skillful synthesis of all these facets should stimulate discussion about the nature of history, fiction, and truth."—The Bulletin, starred review

"[Annexed] is compassionate and thoughtful, told in a very intimate way. Dogar gets the claustrophobia of the annexe across brilliantly, as it escapes in pointless bickering and petty resentments, but the picture of vital, interesting people with hopes, dreams, loves and ambitions rises equally vividly from the pages. Peter himself is wonderfully drawn: painfully shy, introspective and independent of thought."—The Book Bag (UK)

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Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex--but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view.

About the Author

Sharon Dogar is a childrens psychotherapist who lives in Oxford, England with her family.   She discovered Anne Franks diary as a child and the again recently when her daughter started reading it.  While writing and researching  this book, she spent many hours soaking up the atmosphere of the Annex.


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moiraethefates , November 30, 2010 (view all comments by moiraethefates)
Annexed by Sharon Dogar Review by Moirae the fates book reviews. I picked this book up because I love the Diary of Anne Frank. It’s always a difficult subject to read. Writing a fictional book based on a real person in a situation like this must be difficult. My biggest fear with this book was that it would somehow change who the people in the secret annex were. Or at least change how people thought of them. I think the author did a good job in be sensitive to the memory of the people she was writing about and being sensitive to the survivors of the Holocaust and the people who were persecuted. It’s hard to talk about character development in this, but you could see how her Peter was growing and how he was dealing with the situation they were in. She did a good job in bringing it all to light and making the reader feel like they were with Peter and seeing everything he was seeing. One thing to remember is that after they were taken away from the annex, there is little we know about what really happened. We have records telling who went where, but knowing what they thought and felt, of course we have no idea, we can only guess. I think that over all this was well written and would be good to read along with The Diary of Anne Frank. Knowing this is a fictional version of course. I do think this was a very powerful book and it was a very hard one to read mostly when it gets to part two when Peter is in the camps after being found in the annex. I did like how at the end the author put a blurb about each person in the annex and what happened to them after they were taken. Over all: I would give this book *** 3 out of five stars. What parents need to know: I would say more then anything a parent needs to read this book before letting a younger child read it. The subject matter is very heavy and it is a very sad book. Cover Art: I liked the cover art, I liked how they have the arm band with the Star of David right there so one can’t miss it. Obtained: I got this book from the publisher.

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Jackie Lang , November 19, 2010
I just read Annexed, actually listened to the audiobook which was done by a wonderful cast. Peter’s voice, his thoughts, his questions about religion, his struggle to discover who he really is as everything around him is stripped away, moved me greatly. I was always interested in Peter after reading the diary of anne frank and I wondered about how he felt about things when the only view we had of him was through Anne’s somewhat judgemental teenage eyes. Sharon Dogar gives Peter a voice every bit as powerful as that of Anne and a very believable voice for a teenage boy. I am amazed by the criticism’s of the book being “sexed up.” I found the tender scenes of two teenagers thrown together very believable and not at all demeaning. The final scenes in the concentration camp had me in tears. Peter has done all he can to survive, things he is not proud of, he wants to survive to tell his story, to honor his father, but he cannot and he dies at the very time of liberation…his final haunting question is one everyone should ask themselves…are you there? Are you listening?

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780547501956
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
10/04/2010
Publisher:
CLARION & MARINER
Pages:
352
Height:
8.25 in
Width:
5.50 in
Thickness:
1.25
Age Range:
12 to 99
Grade Range:
7 and up
Author:
Sharon Dogar
Author:
Sharon Dogar
Media Run Time:
B
Subject:
Children's 12-Up - Fiction - History
Subject:
Children s-Historical Fiction-Holocaust

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