Creating Remembrance in Alice Hoffman's When We Flew Away

A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

Authors

  • John Franklin Pittsburg State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62704/

Keywords:

Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank House, concentration camps, deportation of Jews, diary, Holocaust, Otto Frank, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Abstract

The reviewer addresses the middle grade novel When We Flew Away (2024) by Alice Hoffman, including explication and justification for including the book in a middle school English Language Arts curriculum.

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Author Biography

  • John Franklin, Pittsburg State University

    John Franklin (BA Rice, MA Miami of Ohio, PhD Florida; certified to teach English and economics) began his career at Jones High School in Houston. During that time, he combined his love for literature with a love of travel, spending 12-week summers biking or backpacking to visit the settings of the drama, fiction and poetry he loved to teach: Scotland for Macbeth; London for Dickens; Canterbury for Chaucer; and, the Lake District for Wordsworth. One Fourth of July he ventured further abroad, discovering himself atop the Acropolis in Athens, thinking, “Here I am at the birthplace of democracy on the birthday of the greatest democracy that has ever existed.” He has spent his life since then appreciating and sharing his good fortune. John Franklin (pronoun he) is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Pittsburg State University in Southeast Kansas where he teaches Literature for Middle and Secondary Schools. He may be reached at jfranklin@pittstate.edu. 

Kansas English, vol. 106

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Published

2025-07-15

Issue

Vol. 106 (2025)

Section

Young Adult (YA) Book Reviews

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How to Cite

Creating Remembrance in Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary. (2025). Kansas English, 106. https://doi.org/10.62704/