Ethel I. (RoyalCatwoman) reviewed Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo on + 278 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I Found this book an informative read . Would be an excellent story for a book report . 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.
Helpful Score: 3
The true story of Zlata Filipovic, 11, witnessing war in Sarajevo. An excellent historical fiction read for middle school students.
Helpful Score: 2
The first person account really shows what this young girl had to go through just to stay alive. It can be related to many things that are occuring now throughout the world. Many say she's a modern Anne Frank, and I agree!
Amy C. (weirdtasteinbooks) reviewed Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Interesting, but not on the scale of Anne Frank.
Kristine W. (Honey11682) reviewed Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo on + 95 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Very interesting as what goes through the mind of a child in war.
