Brief Summary Of Liesel's The Book Thief

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In "The Book Thief", Death introduces himself as the narrator of the story and he tells us about all of the times that he saw the book thief or rather, Liesel. He tells of the very first time that he saw her, on a train, and the other two times that he saw her. His second two times were when he came for a piolet who had crashed soul and when a bombing had occurred. After this, Death starts to tell his story. First, while they are on the train, Liesel's little brother dies and they are forced to bury him. When they do, Liesel steals a book from a grave digger. After this, she and her mother continue to Molching, where she meets her foster parents. At first, she dislikes them, but Hans Huberman, her foster father, wins her over by teacher her

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