Description: "Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she 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"--
Review Quotes: "Elegant, philosophical and moving...Beautiful and important." --Kirkus Reviews, starred
"This hefty volume is an achievement...a challenging book in both lengthand subject..." --Publisher's Weekly, starred "One of the most highly anticipated young-adult books in years." --The Wall Street Journal
"Exquisitely written and memorably populated, Zusak's poignant tribute to words, survival, and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited." --The Horn Book Magazine, starred "An extraordinary narrative." --School Library Journal, starred "The Book Thief will be appreciated for Mr. Zusak's audacity, also on display in his earlier I Am the Messenger. It will be widely read and admired because it tells a story in which books become treasures. And because there's no arguing with a sentiment like that." --New York Times