Is reading a way for you to escape reality? This was the story for Liesel Meminger. The novel takes place in Germany, in 1939, around the time she was 10. Liesel and her brother, Werner, were on their way to their new foster parents, Rosa and Hans Hubermann, when Werner unexpectedly dies. Before she arrives in Molching, she attends her brother’s funeral, where she steals the book The Gravedigger’s Handbook. Upon arriving at the Hubermann’s house hold, she has the same nightmare every night: her brother dead on the train. Hans begins to teach her to read every night. Meanwhile this is happening, Liesel becomes best friends with her neighbor, Rudy Steiner. They go on to have many great memories, some of which they stole together. Her foster mother,
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Ilsa invited Liesel in a couple times to read, but once Rosa stopped doing laundry for her, Liesel and Rudy would sneak in through the window and steal her books. Around the same time this was happening, a Jew, by the name of Max Vandenburg, arrives at the Hubermann’s household, needing a place to hide from the Nazi’s. When he finds out Liesel has a love for books, he wrote two books for her over pages of Hitlers, Mein Kampf. Many Jew’s walked through Himmel Street to the labor camp, Dachau, but when Han’s gives a Jew in line a piece of bread, they risk Max’s safety and must send him away. Han’s was then accepted into the NSDAP, and later drafted into the military to collect dead bodies and put out fires. There was then another parade of Jew’s being marched to Dachau, and in the line of Jew’s, Liesel see’s Max. She finally concludes that Hitler is responsible for her mother disappearance, her brother dying, Han’s being drafted, and Max being sent to Dachau. She began to hate reading, but Ilsa encourages her to write her own book. She writes about her life in the Hubermann’s basement, where she survives a bomb that kills everyone in her neighborhood.
Ilsa invited Liesel in a couple times to read, but once Rosa stopped doing laundry for her, Liesel and Rudy would sneak in through the window and steal her books. Around the same time this was happening, a Jew, by the name of Max Vandenburg, arrives at the Hubermann’s household, needing a place to hide from the Nazi’s. When he finds out Liesel has a love for books, he wrote two books for her over pages of Hitlers, Mein Kampf. Many Jew’s walked through Himmel Street to the labor camp, Dachau, but when Han’s gives a Jew in line a piece of bread, they risk Max’s safety and must send him away. Han’s was then accepted into the NSDAP, and later drafted into the military to collect dead bodies and put out fires. There was then another parade of Jew’s being marched to Dachau, and in the line of Jew’s, Liesel see’s Max. She finally concludes that Hitler is responsible for her mother disappearance, her brother dying, Han’s being drafted, and Max being sent to Dachau. She began to hate reading, but Ilsa encourages her to write her own book. She writes about her life in the Hubermann’s basement, where she survives a bomb that kills everyone in her neighborhood.