My favorite book “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak is very different from “The Grapes of Wrath” but they both follow familiar themes. “The Book Thief” is about a family living in Germany during the Holocaust, although they are not jewish they take in a jewish man hiding from Nazi soldiers. As the book continues they survive off of each other and friends to keep going, as so did the Joad Family. In “The Grapes of Wrath” while traveling to California they had many bumps in the road that took a lot of bravery to overcome. Without the family's bravery in both books they wouldn't have been able to make it through the hard times. In “The Book Thief” the main character Liesel deals with many losses but finds the strength to move on, grow old, and
