In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the  horrors of Nazi occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over  the next two years Anne vividly describes in her diary the frustrations of  living in such confined quarters.  For teenage readers, this unabridged, definitive text reveals Anne's  innermost thoughts and feelings as she grows up, and provides a deeply  moving true-life story that comes to an abrupt and tragic end.