The successful play is now a gripping novel. Knocked unconscious after explosions ring out during a field trip to an Anne Frank exhibit, boy-crazy Nicole Burns wakes to find herself living a parallel life as a Jew in 1942 Paris. This Nicole is dating the boy of her present-day dreams, but living under the Nazis gradually becomes a nightmare. Her family survives the Nazi occupation with the help of friends, but when her father is exposed as a resistant, their fate takes a dire turn. The shifts in Nicole’s lives — from a carefree, sophisticated Parisian girl to a wretch riding in a cattle car with Anne Frank; from a modern girl focused only on the drama of her high school life to a thoughtful observer of the potential of everyday injustices — will engage teens and change their views of history found in books and the history we’re making today.
- ISBN: 9780399233296
- Authors: Bennett, Cherie; Gottesfeld, Jeff
- Published: 2001, Putnam Juvenile
- Themes: Anne Frank, Holocaust, Jew, Nazi, Occupation, Paris, Space and time, Time travel, World War II
- Descriptors: Fantasy, France, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 352