PAGES: 560
PUBLISHED: 2006
MEETING TIME/DATE: April 28th - 6:30PM
REASON CHOSEN: "After doing an extensive search I realized this was the ONE simply because its not like any book I've ever read."
FIRST IMPRESSION RATING: 7.5 (average)
Kami - 8
Megs - 8
Oona - 8.5
Gina - 7
Michelle - 7
Connie - 7
Death himself narrates the story of Liesel, a German girl left with foster parents just before the outbreak of World War II. Along the way to her new home with her younger brother, he dies; after the funeral, Liesel steals The Gravedigger's Handbook, though she cannot yet read. It's only the first of what will become a series of book thefts. As she settles in with her harsh but caring foster mother, Rosa, and kind foster father, Hans, Liesel gets to know her poor neighborhood and learns to read. Her obsession with books grows as the war closes in, rationing is put in place, air raids begin, and Hans hides a Jewish man in the basement. Through it all, Death travels the Earth, taking in more and more souls every day.
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