Book Review-The Diary of Laura’s Twin

Today, I am going to be reviewing a book called “The Diary of Laura’s Twin”. This book is about a mysterious diary that links 2 Jewish girls – Laura, a modern-day girl, and Sara, a young girl who fought to stay alive – together.

Laura had to start getting ready for her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah. She is assigned a special “twinning” project, in which she is to read about someone who is her age, and lived during the Holocaust. She chose to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a girl her age, who was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. She never got to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah, so Laura is going to share it with her. Each page Laura turns, she gets caught up with the book more, and more.

I really liked this book because it was non-fiction and fiction at the same time. This is because some parts are written like a diary, which included facts and pictures of the time during WWII (World War 2).

Even though Sara, Laura and all the other characters aren’t real, the things Sara talks about are. The Warsaw Ghetto is also real, as well as some of the heroes, and the pictures.

Here is a picture of the front cover of the book:

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Here is a picture of the author, Kathy Kacer:

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