Annie's Promise

by Sonia Levitin

Book Overview

Annie's Promises is Sonia Levitin's unforgettable work of historical fiction.

As a young refugee from Nazi Germany, Annie Platt seizes the opportunity to attend Quaker Pines, a camp for people of many different backgrounds. The conclusion to Levitin's series about the Platt family, German Jewish refugees, is a "solidly crafted novel." (Publisher's Weekly)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689804407
• ISBN13: 9780689804403
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A very enjoyable book!

I liked this book because I'm interested in WWII history and I like horses. I enjoyed reading about Annie's struggles and joys -her struggles for independance, her friends, (especially Tally, who seems like a really good friend) her days at summer camp, and the way everything turns out neatly in the end despite her parent's predjudices and strict ways. However, there was one place where the author erred, and that was in regards to Annie's age in the book. If you read the first book in the series, Journey to America, you'll see that Annie turned four in 1938, the year the series began. At the beginning of Annie's Promise, set in the summer of 1945, Annie says that she's nearly 13, but if the chronological order was correct, she should be 11. Otherwise, this is a great story! I would happily recommend it.

Annie?s promise is highly recommended

Annie has two older sisters and a mother and father. She, unlike her sisters, is a total tomboy. She wants to go to summer camp so she can learn to ride horses and meet new people. At the camp, Quaker Pines, she knows no one a first. On the way there she meets Tallahassee a new friend and an older boy named John Wright. When she arrives at the camp she meets a girl named Nancy Rae who hates her before she knows her. From there on Annie tries to solve problems that keep on coming. I loved this book. I liked it because this book is full of suspense and drama. I would say it is a book more for young girls, over the age of eleven, but I am sure boys would like it just as much. I also liked it because it was about a girl my age. I found out what it was like for her in 1945, in America, during and after World War II. My friend also commented that she loved this book also. I strongly recommend this book, especially if you like drama!

GR8!

This book was a very good book indeed. The setting is very important in this book. It takes place right after WW2 ended. The setting is important because if the setting were different, the whole plot would probably be different. If it took place now, Tally and Annie wouldnt be discriminated.

I guess I'll be the only reviewer of this GREAT book! =)

Before reading this I had already read the two prequels,"Journey to America" and "Silver Days". They toldthe story of the Platt family secretly immigrating to the US - Mama, Papa, bossy Ruth, lovable Lisa, and little and cute Annie who is to, put it bluntly, the baby of the family and everyone knows it. So I picked up this book imagining it was just another Levitin book. WAS I WRONG! I read the back cover seeing "Annie Platt, twelve years old", and immediately thought to myself, "That's little baby Annie my age!" So I read it and to this day I still love it, a great book and it's great to see what her big sisters are up to also - Ruth a nurse like she wanted to be and Lisa a worker. Great book. Read it.