Dogar, Sharon

Peter Van Pels and his family have lost their country, their home, and their freedom, and now they are fighting desperately to remain alive. Look through Peter's eyes in this story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.

Hal feels eerily connected to his comatose older sister as she hovers between life and death in a hospital. He believes his sister is trying to communicate with him as he tries to solve the mystery of her accident.

A fictional account of life with Anne Frank hidden in the secret annex from Peter's point-of-view, following as he becomes closer with Anne, begins to question his own religion, and is forced to suppress his own desires to join the fight.

While on summer vacation with his family in Brackinton, fifteen-year-old Hal begins to hear thoughts his sister is having, even though she is in a comatose state in a hospital back home, and discovers the truth behind the accident that put her there.