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Discovery In The Book Thief
Following her discovery that someone had been watching her steal the book from the bonfire in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel quickly turns away and hurriedly continues back to her Papa, mind whirling that the mayor’s wife had been the one to seen her. While her and her Papa are walking back to their house, Papa becomes suspicious as smoke was coming up Liesel’s collar and is surprised when Liesel pulls out the burnt The Shoulder Shrug. Once Papa gets over his shock, they make their way back home where Liesel becomes paranoid to deliver laundry to the mayor’s house thinking that she would be punished, but is instead invited into the family's’ private library. Unknown to Liesel, her stealing the novel had sparked an idea in Papa to
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