Why I Like The Book Thief

I like The Book Thief because it is very interesting reading from a different view. What i mean is that most Holocaust books are written from the view of a Jewish person that is being hunted down, but in this book it is from the point of view of a German girl. Plus, i have never read a book about a girl stealing books from a person. Most of the time when characters in books steal they steal food and clothes and things like that. Instead, Liesel finds out that the mayors wife has a big library full of books and so Liesel goes and steals the books that she want to read. The only thing is that the mayors wife knows that it is Liesel that is stealing her books, so really Liesel isn't stealing at all. I also like the book because it is very interesting to read about how the Holocaust affected the Germans too. I would recommend this book to any high school because there are lots of big words that I didn't know the meaning to. Plus, there is some language that some people may not like.

The Book Thief

I am reading a book called The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The Book Thief is about a 13 year old German girl named Liesel who is living during the Holocaust. Liesel used to live with her mom and brother during but her mom ended up giving Liesel and her brother to some foster parents. On the way to the foster people's house Lisle’s younger brother ends up dying so Liesel ends up going to the foster people alone. Her foster parents are an older couple named Hans and Rosa Hubermann. While staying with the Hubermann’s she becomes good friends with a boy named Rudy. Rudy and Liesel end up going through a lot together, including stealing food to stop their hunger. Lisle’s first stealing experience was when she was watching her brother being buried. One of the grave diggers had a book in his pocket. When he was digging the hole the book ended up falling out of his pocket into the ground. Liesel saw this and when the guy wasn’t watching she grabbed the book of the ground. Even though Liesel couldn’t read the book she kept it because it was a memory of the last time she had seen her brother and her mom. During her time at the Hubermann’s Liesel stole some more books from places for various reasons. In the book right now Hans Hubermann is coming home from the war and Liesel just stole another book from the mayor’s wife.