# The Diary of a Young Girl

**Author:** Anne Frank
**Lexile:** 1080L
**Grade range:** Grades 7–10
**Age range:** 12–16
**First published:** 1947
**Page count:** 283
**Genre:** Memoir
**ISBN-13:** `9780553577129`
**ISBN-10:** `0553577123`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-diary-of-a-young-girl
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Anne Frank's diary records two years of hiding with her family in an Amsterdam annex during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She writes with adolescent self-awareness about family, growing up, and fear, and the diary ends abruptly with her arrest. Widely assigned in middle- and early high-school Holocaust units and history classes.

## Themes

- Holocaust
- coming of age
- hope
- family conflict
- antisemitism
- war and hiding

## Content notes

- Holocaust
- adolescent sexuality (mild)
- family tension
- fear of death

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 12+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 6-8 informational text exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · New York — [source: NY grade 8 Holocaust study aligned reading](https://www.nysed.gov/)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: PA Core Standards grade 8 aligned reading](https://www.education.pa.gov/)

## Banned / challenged record

Documented removals or formal challenges in at least one school district in 2 states: FL, TX. Source: [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-book-list/) 2022-2024.

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