Anne Frank and Me is a 2001 novel by husband and wife writing team Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld.
Inspired by the life of Anne Frank, it follows a teenage girl named Nicole Burns who travels back in time to 1942 and inhabits the body of a Jewish Holocaust victim.
[1] Nicole Burns, a fifteen-year-old American high school student living in the year 2001, becomes fascinated with a Holocaust survivor named Paulette Littzer-Gold, who speaks to her English class.
She attempts to run along with the rest of her classmates, but is struck in the back while ascending a staircase and loses consciousness.
Several of Nicole's friends are non-Jews who oppose Adolf Hitler's policies and protect the Bernhardt family.
Kliatt called Anne Frank and Me a "powerful and affecting story" which "makes the deprivations and degradation of the Nazi occupation come alive.
"[3] Similarly, Kirkus Reviews accused the story of "pounding the reader over the head with the message" using "trite and forced" dialogue.