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Hitler's Daughter (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))

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This is a quick read but one that I can definitely recommend. What starts as a game of storytelling while waiting for the bus evolves into much more as a group of schoolchildren find themselves exploring deep ideas beyond the obvious. What if Hitler really did have a daughter? What if she disagreed with his policies? Mark, the central character, struggles with how these ideas could carry over into his life while Anna tells a story that certainly sounds realistic. This book is written on a level for 10-12 year olds but brings to life many thought-provoking questions that readers of all ages will ponder for a long time afterwards. This book would especially make for interesting discussions in a classroom setting. Highly recommended.

I really liked Hitler's Daughter. Firstly, because it looks at the whole Hitler and the Holocaust time from a new perspective. Secondly, it shows that a child's innocence is truely innocent. Heidi honestly had no idea what her father was doing to people, especially Jewish people. And lastly, the characters, especially Anna, were very easy to relate to. They had a real human feeling to them.

The best part of the book for me was whenh Heidi/Helga told her granddaughter the story of her life, and how Anna used that story to educate herself and her friends. I wonder what it would be like to be Anna, or Heidi. To know such a story, full of such horror. It must have taken some nerve and faith to share that story with others. I also think that it was extremely clever how Anna tells the story at the bus stop during the rain. I liked the story even more because of how it was written.

I think that the characters and setting are the most vivid parts of the story. The characters because everyone can relate to Mark and his questions, Tracey and how she just wanted the story, Ben with his skepticism, and Anna and her hidden self. The setting was very vivid to me because it is so easy to see yourself there, listening to Anna tell the story of Heidi. Overall, I think this book is very well written and not too hard to understand. I like that it makes you think and its not a fluffy book where everything has a sugar coated ending. This book feels real.

Hitler's Daughter is, in my opinion, an amazing book. The story is set in Australia and draws
you in right away with its sweet and passionate characters. The main characters are Anna and Mark. They are school aged children who pass their time each morning telling stories on the bus to school.You will fall in love with the sweet way they go about daily life yet discuss such powerful and emotional events of the past. The children were fascinating to me because I could relate to them. They spoke a little different using words like "Mum" for mother and they lived in
another country. The author did a wonderful job making me feel like I was exactly like them.

In the book, Anna tells her intriguing story about a little girl named Heidi. She was Hitlers daughter. You will feel the sadness in Anna's voice as she describes the horrible life that poor Heidi had to live. Mark became overwhelmed with sorrow and intrigue as he tried to figure out if the story Anna was telling was truth or make believe. He struggled over the details of Heidi's sad life and didn't want to believe that a child would live the way she did. Heidi was abandoned by her father and made to feel worthless. She had a scared face and walked with a limp. Mark was disgusted with Hitler and wanted to know more and more about how he could be so evil. As the story continues you will be drawn further into the compassion that these children feel over her story. The author keeps you in suspense throughout the story, giving you details that are so real to life and yet is just a childs make believe story. Mark had nightmares about how Heidi was not allowed to attend school and she had no friends. She lived a lonely life. He appreciated his own life and family more and more as her story was told. I was so moved by the powerful and sincere emotions stirred up from this book. I had feelings of appreciation for my own family. The highlight in this story for me was the way Mark really cared for Heidi, never knowing for sure if she was real or fake.

Hitler's Daughter is a great book that I would recommend highly to everyone.This book will transport you back to a time of great despair and troubled times. I promise you that
when you finish this book, you will have a different outlook on events of the past and a much greater appreciation for the present times. If you enjoy taking a trip back in time then read Hitler's Daughter. You will not be disappointed.

I like this book because it is interesting and it talks about Hitler. He killed about 11 millions of people. I like this book because it have fact about a story about hitler and his daughter, and it talks about a family that were going to bus and Anna the big sister told storys about hitler's daughter.

This book is Awsome!!!!!!!!!! we read it in English. it always leaves a gap in the storyline for you to solve and put the pieces of the puzzle together which is what i like in a book. the end is mysterious yet interesting leaving you with the question "is it just a story, or is it real?"

I highly reccomend you read this book!!
Lauren
Markham
age 12
year 7

Jake Oswald 5/8/06 Miss. Martone per.6


Hitler's Daughter

By: Jackie French




One opinion that I have is that I wouldn't have told Heidi that her father was the biggest murder in the world and will go down in history for ever. Once Heidi found out that her father was Hitler she didn't even want to be around her mother because her mother just gave into Hitler like she was a little toy. Once Heidi's mother told her that there was nothing she could have done because if she did say no Hitler would have killed her.

Another opinion I had about the book was that Mark was trying to put himself in Heidi place, but he shouldn't even have worried about that because the only person I think that could do that and did that was Heidi. What I think Mark should have done was looked up and researched what and how Heidi dealt with her father being Hitler. I did like this because he at least tried.




My final opinion that I think about the book is that Anna and Mark should of talk more about Hitler's daughter. I didn't like that because I would have liked to know what they thought about Heidi as Hitler's daughter.

In this story, "Hitler's Daughter" is a pretend story made up by an girl called Anna, who tells it to her friends. Everyone knows Hitler never had a daughter, but this book is a "what if" fictional story on a girl who happened to be Hitler's daughter.
Heidi, Hitler's daughter in this story, had been hidden away from the outside world all through her life because Hitler didn't want anyone to know he had a daughter. Heidi's life is pretty much sheltered from reality until the very end of World War II. Her story is told in a very simple, direct way, through the eyes of a precocious child who doesn't see much in her life.
Mark was one of Anna's friends who listened while she told the story of Hitler's daughter. He finds her a very intriguing character and her story causes him to be more wary of the worlds around him.

This has been a very interesting book to read, and the title "Hitler's Daughter" is indeed a most captivating title. I liked how the story is told in such a simple, direct way, so it seems as though it is Heidi who tells her own story, not Anna.
However, some issues discussed in this book were never solved in the end (such as Mark wondering what he would have done if his own father was Hitler, and the part about his farm and the Aborigines.) The middle of this book was a little boring (because nothing much happened to Heidi anyways), but it is the ending that slowly sinks into you and makes you say, "oh."
Heidi was ultimately the most interesting character in this book, and her story is a compelling yet fictional one of "what might have been".

[Why have I never thought of writing a story like this?]

This story is mainly about Hitler's daughter. Throughout this book, Hitler never paid attention to his daughter. He hated her and treated her really bad, because of the way she looked. As soon as she met the other family on the battlefield, they took her in and she spent the rest of her life living a happy life. I recommend this book to everyone who likes to learn about history or wars and little secrets that they hide.

This story had secrets that one character kept from another. First of all, Duffy (Hitler) never told his daughter what it is he did. Another major secret was Hitler never told anyone that he had a daughter. He didn't want anyone to know about her, because he was embarrassed about the way she looked. Half of her face was covered with a birthmark, and one leg was shorter than the other. The last main secret was why Hitler treated her horribly. He treated her that way for the same reasonhe kept her a secret.

This book also has a lot of violence. In the story, you hear about a lot of bombs going off. The bombs were going off wherever the planes thought that they had saw movement. You also heard in the book that wherever you went there weren't many people around. That was because all of the Jews were taken for hostage or were killed. At the end of the book, it said that while they were crossing the battlefield, there were dead bodies everywhere.

Heidi, Hitler's daughter, went from a horrible home to a really nice family. She was in a horrible home. Her dad didn't let her out of the house, and he was never there for her. While Heidi was crossing the battlefield, she met a family. They brought her to Australia with them. When they got to Australia, the family took her in. In order for her to live and stay with them, they had to change her name. The family's daughter died, so Heidi took the daughter's identity.

If you like to learn about history and wars and little secrets that they hide, you should read this book. I really recommend it to you guys. As you see, Heidi never really got to see her father a lot. He hired many maids to take care of her and the house. That was the closest thing to family that she had. When she was with that family in Australia, though, she knew that was her rightful place.

B. Williams

The format of this book is rather interesting. The main characters are Mark - a modern Australian teenager - and Heidi, Hitler's daughter. Mark knows of Heidi as the character in a story his friend Anna is making up.

Anna begins this story as a way to pass time while the kids are waiting for the bus. Heidi is Hitler's un-acknowledged daughter. She's imperfect - not blonde and beautiful - so she's not a candidate for the arian race. But she loves her daddy, and he loves her in his way.

Mark listens to this story and as he does, a change occurs in him. He starts to consider Point Of View. The questions come - what if My Dad were evil? Would I see that? If I did, would I challenge him?

Beyond the captivating story that Anna tells, the transformation in Mark is a reason to read this book. It is a very quick read, but a good one, for boys or girls.

Highly recommended.
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The reason why I gave this book 4 stars was because it is the kind of book that I like, its mysterious and gives a lot of details. As difference to the other books this one is very easy to read and has few words I didnt understood. Also something that I liked of this book was that it was a fiction book, and it was a very interesting book too.