When Death has a story to tell, you listen.
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
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 canÃÂt resistÃÂbooks. 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.ÃÂ
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author ofÃÂ I Am the Messenger,ÃÂ has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
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ÃÂThe kind of book that can be life-changing.ÃÂ ÃÂThe New York Times
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ÃÂDeserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.ÃÂ ÃÂUSA Today
