The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This is classed as a Young Adult Book but I would recommend it to anyone, It is set in 1939 Nazi Germany - Death has never been busier and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside Munich who scratches out a meager existence 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 neighbours in bomb shelters during air-raids, as well as with the Jewish man hiding in her basement. Narrated by Death, this book gives us a different but still haunting and stark picture of the holocaust, and the reality of life for the young people of Nazi Germany.
This book has been made into a movie which was released late last year.
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