How anyone could not rate this five stars is beyond me. Her prose, her humor, and her expressions all point to somebody with a far larger emotional capacity and writing ability than that of a young, teenage girl. Knowing the ending to this book makes the act of reading it painfully and tragically beautiful. We are blessed to be afforded with this intimate insight into the horror of being a young Jewish girl in that era and I believe that this is a novel everyone should read at least once in their lives.