Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Anne Frank
Richard Amdur · 1993
70/100
👍 Worth It
Richard Amdur's entry in the Chelsea House Library of Biography does the job it was designed for: giving middle school students a structured, illustrated, reference-ready biography of Anne Frank covering her full life and lasting legacy, not just the diary. The chronology, appendices, and index make it genuinely useful for school projects, and the historical photographs ground the text in reality. It's a format-constrained series book rather than a standout individual biography, but for classroom and library use it's a dependable choice.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance72
craft68
originality60
accuracy75
hype72
age-fit88
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict70
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