Book Descriptions
for The Bat-Chen Diaries by Bat-Chen Shahak
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
Israeli Bat-Chen was killed at the age of fifteen, but her diary entries and poems remain as a record of her life, her emotions, and the universal teenage experiences. Her cries for peace and her awareness of daily danger help read ers not facing these issues understand life within a time of conflict. si
Translated by Diana Rubanenko.
Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children's Books. © USBBY, 2011. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Presents the diaries of a young Israeli girl in which she documents her feelings about her family, friends, school, and the tumultuous political events surrounding her before her untimely death at the age of fifteen in a 1996 suicide bombing.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.