Book Thief By Markus Zusak: Summary

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak follows ten-year-old Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany 1939 after her mother decides to send her and her brother to a foster home, as a result of not being able to financially care for the siblings. On the train ride to the foster home, Liesel’s brother dies due to malnutrition, so they make a stop at the nearest graveyard to bury him and once the burial is finished, Liesel notices a book lying on the snow. Despite not knowing how to read, Liesel steals The Grave Digger’s Handbook and goes back on the train with her mother, heading to the small town of Molching. Upon meeting her foster parents, Rosa ‘Mama’ and Hans ‘Papa’ Hubermann, Liesel immediately takes a liking to her Papa, who is the one to give her comfort