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Author Zusak, Markus.

Title The book thief / Markus Zusak ; with illustrations by Trudy White
Published Sydney : Picador, 2008

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 W'PONDS  827.04 Z9676 A6/B 2008  DUE 06-04-24
Description 584 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
regular print
Series Premiers' Reading Challenge Year 10 Super Challenge
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
Summary "It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. 'The Book Thief' is a story about the power of words to make worlds. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time." -- GBIP
Notes Previously published: 2005
Subject Books and reading -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115191
Genre/Form Novels.
Author White, Trudy.
ISBN 0330423304 (paperback)
9780330423304 (paperback)