Liesel Meminger is a nine-year-old girl living outside of Munich, Germany. She stole her first book by her brother's graveside, and with help from her foster father she learns to read. So begins her love for words and books, and she is soon stealing books from Nazi book burnings and the mayor's library.
Liesel shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids and with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
Told from Death's point of view and set in Nazi Germany, The Book Thief is a remarkable, heartbreaking, and educational novel. It's rare in the same way Lois Lowry's The Giver is; no matter how many times you read it, it will always seem new and exciting.
I've never read the Book Thief but I really want to! :D I'm learning about World War Two right now with my family and our home school group's book club is reading the Diary of Anne Frank right now. :D
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