The Book Thief Contributor(s): Zusak, Markus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375842209 ISBN-13: 9780375842207 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2007 Annotation: Set during World War II in Germany, Zusaks groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing, encounters something she cant resist: books. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Holocaust - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Orphans & Foster Homes - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2007281233 |
Age Level: 12-UP |
Grade Level: 7-UP |
Lexile Measure: 730(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (1.00 lbs) 608 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Cultural Region - Germany - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's |
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Awards: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, Nominee, Grades 9-12, 2008 Delaware Diamonds Award, Nominee, High School, 2010 Green Mountain Book Award, Nominee, Grades 9-12, 2009 |
Review Citations: Kliatt 05/01/2007 pg. 30 Entertainment Weekly 02/04/2011 pg. 114 Entertainment Weekly 03/04/2016 pg. 63 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 106101 Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. "The kind of book that can be life-changing." --The New York Times "Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank." --USA Today DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. |
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