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I Am Fifteen--And I Don't Want to Die
I Am FifteenAnd I Don't Want to Die
Author: Christine Arnothy
Only fifteen when she lived through the events told about in this book, Christine Arnothy left Hungrary four years later, in 1948. While she was living in Belgium and writing this story from the diaries she had kept during the siege of Budapest, Christine was working in a bookstore. — "Nobody knew," she writes, "that I would rather write books th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780590025287
ISBN-10: 0590025287
Publication Date: 10/1986
Pages: 126
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Publisher: Scholastic
Book Type: Paperback
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Moving story of a young girl living through the holocaust.
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First came the Nazi invaders...now the Russians! Huddled in the cold, dark cellar of their bombed-out apartment building, Christine and her family listen in fear as the battle rages over their heads. They must get out of the city - but where, and how? "I am fifteen," Chris prays silently, "only fifteen...and I don't want to die!"

Prize-winning true story of teenage heartbreak and heroism during World War II.


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