Anne Frank, Lois Lowry, and... Jenna Bush?

From USA Today (via GalleyCat):

Jenna Bush, in a rare interview, says her forthcoming book for teens — about a 17-year-old single mother in Panama who is living with HIV — will end with a "call to action."

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Bush says she will donate her earnings to UNICEF. She says she "very, very modestly" hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank.

Yikes.  Doesn't seem like comparing your book to those two in any way, regardless of how modestly, is a good idea for an established author, let alone a first-timer.

I'll be interested to see what sales are like -- looks like HC is betting big.  They're planning a 500,000 copy print run.  Nice that she's donating the money, though.