This suc­cinct, high­ly read­able biog­ra­phy pro­vides an ade­quate intro­duc­tion to Anne Frank. Suf­fi­cient back­ground infor­ma­tion enables read­ers to place Anne Frank’s life in his­tor­i­cal con­text and gain some knowl­edge of what life was like for Jews in hid­ing dur­ing Hit­ler’s reign of ter­ror. Archival and con­tem­po­rary pho­tos enhance the text though the qual­i­ty is incon­sis­tent. Addi­tion­al­ly, the com­put­er gen­er­at­ed graph­ics used to illus­trate the floor plan of the Secret Annex and the time line of Anne’s life are unso­phis­ti­cat­ed and don’t match the tone of the rest of the book. Cap­tions, textbox­es, and quotes from Anne’s diary are gen­er­ous­ly placed on every page. A ​“Stop! Think” fea­ture pos­es ques­tions to read­ers such as ​“What belong­ings would you bring with you if you need­ed to hide?” and ​“Why do you think Anne loved sit­ting near the win­dow?” while the ​“Dig Deep­er” fea­ture pro­vides read­ers with addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion about Anne’s diary and the chest­nut tree out­side the Secret Annex. A glos­sary, index, bib­li­og­ra­phy, and list of web­sites are append­ed. One incon­sis­ten­cy in the text should be not­ed: the author indi­cates that Anne’s fam­i­ly had lived in Frank­fort for over 100 years (p.4) but lat­er states that ​“the Frank fam­i­ly had lived in Frank­fort for over 300 years” (p.6). While biogra­phies of Anne Frank for young read­ers are plen­ti­ful, this offer­ing will hope­ful­ly moti­vate read­ers to turn to more in-depths accounts such as Anne Frank: A Hid­den Life by Mir­jam Pressler and the diary itself. Rec­om­mend­ed for ages 9 – 13.