The Book Thief

Product Description
"The Book Thief" is the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order. "The Book Thief" offers us a believable hard-won hope...The hope we see in Liesel is unassailable, the kind you can hang on to in the midst of poverty and war and violence. Young readers need such alternatives to ideological rigidity, and such explorations of how stories matter.

Liesel Meminger is "The Book Thief", living with a foster family in Germany during World War Two. Torn from everything she's known, her foster father shows her the power of words as the two of them share late night reading sessions of The Grave Digger's Handbook. Her love of books ties her to others, including the mayor's wife and Max, the Jew the family hides in the basement.

Product Details
Age Range: 12 and up
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Later Printing edition (September 11, 2007)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.2 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds

About the Author
Australian author Markus Zusak grew up hearing stories about Germany during WWII, about the bombing of Munich and about Jews being marched through his mother's small, German town. He always knew it was a story he wanted to tell.

At the age of 30, Zusak has already asserted himself as one of today's most innovative and poetic novelists. With the publication of The Book Thief, he is now being dubbed a "literary phenomenon" by Australian and U.S. critics. Zusak is the award-winning author of four previous books for young adults: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Getting the Girl, and I Am the Messenger, recipient of a 2006 Printz Honor for excellence in young adult literature. He lives in Sydney.