The Book Thief by Markus Zusak centers around Liesel Meminger, a foster child who's life changes due to her love of books. If not only being a foster child adopted by strangers after her little brother's death is hard enough, Liesel is German, during a tempestuous time to be German: the Nazi Era. Liesel must navigate the challenges of school, love, friendship, foster parents, Nazism, responsibility, secrecy, morals, and her only solace only comes from the books that she steals fro the flames of book burnings, the mayor's wife, and gifts from the Jewish man they are hiding in the basement.
I feel that this is a wonderful book for children from middle school through adults. I will challenge anyone not to cry when they read book. Not only could this book be recommended to a student to read for pleasure, it would work extremely well in a text set about World War II as it gives a fictional account of a child living in Nazi Germany and the struggles morality and surviving blend. In a very interesting aspect, the narrator of the story is Death, which gives an amazing account of humanity as he travels through collecting souls.
Dave Pfeiff
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