About the Book: Book Thief
It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never
been busier - and will become busier still.
By her brothers graveside, Liesels life is changed forever when she picks up a
single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravediggers Handbook, and this
is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesels love affair with books and
words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayors wifes
library . . . wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times, and when Liesels foster family