Book Thief

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak is a book that takes place towards the end of the Second World War. The main character, Leisel has experience a lot of trama with her family and now she has lost her brother, her mother has run off, and she is now fostered in a small down outside Berlin. She is not very educated and does not know how to read, but she stole her first book, The Grave Digger's Handbook from the graveyard of her brother. She faces many hardships as a foster child and additionally she learns to read and write. After, she learns this, she begins to have a significance in books. I find this book very interesting because it is narrated by death. In the end, she falls in love with a boy named Max who is eventually taken away to a concentration camp.