I Am Fifteen And I Don't Want to Die Author:Christine Arnothy Budapest, Hungary: World War II. Christine is only fifteen, and she's caught in the middle of a war-torn city. 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 will they go and how will they escape? Chr... more »istine is learning some hard lessons about life -- and death -- as she struggles to stay alive amidst the horrors of war.
Christine Arnothy left Hungary four years later, in 1948. While she was living in Belgium and writing this story from the diaries she had kept during hte siege of Budapest, Christine was working in a bookstore. 'Nobody knew,' she writes, 'that I would rather write books than sell them.' I Am Fifteen -- and I Don't Want to Die won the Prix de Verites (French prize for nonfiction) the year it was published.« less
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.