"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIMEMAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME - A NEW YORK TIMES READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY
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The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.
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When Death has a story to tell, you listen.
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It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
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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.
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In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time." <p/>
