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Hitler’s Daughter

Jackie French

Introduction	Summary	Book review
Characters & Setting	Cecily-7 November12, 2004 Language Arts	Author info

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Introduction

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be Hitler’s daughter? For a girl named Heidi it she didn’t have to wonder she was his daughter. Think how it must have been to be in her shoes. When you read this book you will find out.

Summary

This story is about a group of friends whose names are Mark, Anna, Ben, and Little Tracey. They like to tell stories to each other at the bus stop while waiting for the bus. This time it was Little Tracey’s turn to pick the story that her sister was going to tell. She wanted it to be about fairies or horses but then Anna suggested it to be about a girl who lived in World War II and whose name was Heidi. She was Hitler’s daughter. Everyone thought that was a great idea so that was the story she told.

As Anna continues telling her story everyone, especially Mark gets worried about the life of Hitler and his daughter. He thinks about what it would have been like if his dad was the one who was the horrible man who was destroying the lives of innocent people everyday and trying to take over the world. To Mark the story seemed so very, very real that he started to wonder what he would do in the same situation.

Characters and Setting

Hitler- a man who lived during World War II and tried to take over the world and killed many because of the features they had or what nationality they were.

Heidi- she was Hitler’s daughter and she had to cope with her father being this evil man and knowing that by influence she might turn out that way someday

Mark- one of the friends who waits at the bus stop and tells stories, gets very troubled with the story that Anna tells and really gets him to think about what he would’ve done if he was in the situation that Heidi was in.

Anna- another friend who waits at the bus stop and makes up the story about Heidi

Setting

This story takes place in Germany during World War II. Concentration camps are everywhere with people of just about every race. It is a very sad and downcast environment with tons of people dying every minute. Screams and calls of distress are heard often from many people who are getting tortured and killed. Tons of German soldiers are everywhere making sure that everyone is doing what they are supposed to do. It is definitely not a happy place.

Info about the Author

Jackie French’s writing career spans 10 years, 106 books, 7 languages, 8 genres, the odd award, radio shows, and newspaper and magazine columns.

Jackie wrote her first children’s book “Rainstones” in an attempt to earn 106.40 to register her car while living in a shed. It was described by the editor at Harper Collins as the messiest, worst spelt manuscript they’d ever gotten.

In a two-week span of time she was offered a regular column in a newspaper and a farming magazine where she discovered that writing about flowers and fantasy was a lot easier that hauling manure in an old green tractor to feed the peach trees. She has been a fulltime writer ever since. Oddly enough she finds inspiration to write while eating chocolate.

She is a passionate plant collector and grows about 180 sorts of fruit, over 60 varieties of apples, and a few hundred herbs.

She has great advice for young writers. For example she says that no matter how good your writing style you must have something to write about. Write about what you love and are passionate about and just go for it.

Other Books By the Author

· Rainstones

· The Boy Who Had Wings

· Walking the Boundaries

· The Children of the Valley

· The Secret Beach

Book Review

I thought that this book was very good. It was very intense and you felt like you were in the story. It was very sad to see all of the awful things that Hitler did and you felt sorry for Heidi and how she had to cope with all of it. The fact that Hitler really did do those things saddened me even more. For example in the book it talked about all of the things he did to torture the people. By the end of the story it really opened my eyes to how horrible and unaccepting people can really be. It also made me happy that it was just a story and that it wasn’t happening right now.