Summary Of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger, a young girl living in the 1940s Germany, steals a book called The Grave Digger’s Handbook that is significant to the novel because of both her situation and the setting. First of all, Liesel steals the book from a grave digger a her brother’s funeral before she is to be taken to a foster family away from her mother. Liesel comes to the realization that she will no longer be with her family, and the book is the only thing that can connect her to them when she is taken away. She steals the book in order to have a connection to her family and signify the end of one time of suffering and abandonment in her life. Second of all, The Book Thief takes place in Germany during the Holocaust, a time