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words by Ira Gershwin; music by Kurt Weill TRO © copyright 1941 (renewed)

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Feldman, Ellen, 1941–

The boy who loved Anne Frank : a novel / Ellen Feldman.— 1st ed.

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ISBN 0-393-05944-8 (hardcover)

1. Holocaust survivors—Fiction. 2. Frank, Anne, 1929–1945—Fiction.

3. Autobiographical memory—Fiction. 4. Diaries—Publishing—Fiction. 5. Jews—United States—Fiction. 6. Refugees, Jewish—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3572.I38B69 2005

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2004028374

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