The book thief, Markus Zusak
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The book thief, Markus Zusak
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The book thief
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Markus Zusak
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YA. Aust'n author. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object - The Gravedigger's Handbook - left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery
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