The Book Thief
By: by Markus Zusak.
Edition: 1st American ed. (1)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2006-03
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780375831003
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Books and reading -- Fiction; Storytelling -- Fiction; Death -- Fiction; Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: Narrated by Death, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she discovers something she can't resist--books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever they are to be found.

With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, Liesel learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

Markus Zusak, award winning author of I Am the Messenger, has crafted an unforgettable novel about the ability of books to feed the soul.
(front flap)
Notes: US / CAN