The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

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 can't resist-books. 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.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

"The kind of book that can be life-changing." --The New York Times

"Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank." --USA Today

DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/11/2007
ISBN: 9780375842207
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee
Award: Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Kliatt 05/01/2007 pg. 30
Entertainment Weekly 02/04/2011 pg. 114
Entertainment Weekly 03/04/2016 pg. 63

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 106101 / Book Thief
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 18