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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Paperback 76: I Am Fifteen - And I Don't Want to Die / Christine Arnothy (Popular-Eagle Library EB95)

Paperback 76: Popular-Eagle Books EB95 (1st ptg, 1957)

Title: I Am Fifteen - and I Don't Want to Die
Author: Christine Arnothy
Cover artist: Mitchell Hooks

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Best things about this cover:

  • It's hard to make fun of a 15-year-old who does not want to die, particularly when the people who might kill her are Nazis.
  • This book was apparently published in order to capitalize on the brief vogue in diaries written by young girls hiding from Nazis.
  • She's pretty chic for a war victim.
  • This cover is slightly boring (not nearly Hooks's best work) but I do love the barbed wire detail around her ankles, and the color of the sky.

RP