The Dadhunters
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This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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Gary lives with his divorced mum, but the highlight of his week is the Saturday visit to City matches with his dad. When dad announces that he is to remarry, Gary imagines that it is only a matter of time until his mum follows suit, plunging his life back into turmoil. To pre-empt this, he and his friend hatch a clutch of misbegotten schemes, aimed at pairing his mum up with a suitably lad-friendly partner. The subsequent chaos embroils Gary's bachelor teacher, a sad case from a lonely hearts agency, an obnoxiously stellar football player, and Gary's dad's fianc$eAe in a cringingly embarrassing comedy of errors. Though seeming to stray toward Mills and Boon territory, this story's wry humour and its compassionate depiction of Gary's perplexity make it suitable reading for all unsentimental juniors.
