When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
by Alice Hoffman
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- Grade
- 3-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Jewish
Year Published 2024
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 940L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Family life--Fiction
- Sisters--Fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction
- Frank, Anne, 1929-1945--Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Holocaust
- Frank, Anne, 1929-1945--Juvenile fiction
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Juvenile fiction
- Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings
- Sisters--Juvenile fiction
- Lists With This Book
- CSLP 2025 Children English
- Read with Jenna Junior 2025
- Untold World War II Stories
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Awards & Distinctions 4

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Selection, 2025

Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees
Grades 6-8 Selection, 2025

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2025; Elementary Selection, 2025

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Grades 6-8 Selection, 2025
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