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Zlata's Diary

A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

by Zlata Filipovic
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The child's diary that awakened the conscience of the world
When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-to-day record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.

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  • Release date

    February 28, 2006

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      • ISBN: 9781101006979

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      • ISBN: 9781101006979
      • File size: 1298 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.3
    • Lexile® Measure: 640
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 30, 1995
      Ten-year-old Croatian Filipovic's graphic, firsthand account of life in embattled Sarajevo was a nine-week PW bestseller. Photos.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 31, 1994
      A graphic firsthand look at the war in Sarajevo by a Croatian girl whose personal world has collapsed, this vivid, sensitive diary sounds an urgent and compelling appeal for peace. Filipovic begins her precocious journal in autumn 1991 as a contented 10-year-old preoccupied with piano and tennis lessons and saturated with American movies, TV shows, books and rock music. Soon the bombs start falling; her friends are killed by shrapnel or snipers' bullets; her family's country house burns down, and they subsist on UN food packages, without gas, electricity or water, as thousands of Sarajevans die. Filipovic, whose circle of friends included Serbs, Croats and Muslims, blames the former Yugoslavia's politicians for dividing ethnic groups and playing hell with people's lives. She and her parents escaped to Paris, and her diary, originally published in Croat by UNICEF, was reissued in France and has already been much written about in the U.S. Photos not seen by PW. 200,000 first printing; film rights to Universal; first serial to Newsweek; author tour

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.3
  • Lexile® Measure:640
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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