Markus Zusak · 2005 · survival

Markus Zusak's 2005 novel, narrated by Death. In Nazi Germany, young Liesel Meminger is sent from a train - her brother dead on the way - to a foster family on Himmel Street in the small town of Molching outside Munich. There she learns to read, steals books from Nazi bonfires and the mayor's library, and shelters a Jewish man in the basement as the war and the bombs close in.

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   Munich

   Liesel travels by train toward the Bavarian capital with her mother and dying brother, on the way to the foster family who will take her in as the Reich tightens its grip.

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   Molching

   The small town outside Munich - Himmel Street - where Liesel is fostered by the Hubermanns, learns to read, and steals books from bonfires while a Jewish refugee hides in the cellar.

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   Dachau

   The road along which the concentration-camp prisoners are marched through Molching, where Liesel searches the faces for the man her family hid, and the war's horror becomes unbearably near.