In this fine autobiographical novel, ten-year-old Annie, the youngest of three Dutch-Jewish sisters, recounts the years she and her young adult sister spent hiding in the upstairs room of a farm family in Holland during World War II. Truly the simple, human book Reiss aimed to create, the story portrays the girls and the family who harbored them not as heroes but people, with strengths and weaknesses, who banded together for the sake of humanity.