The book thief

Resource Information

The work The book thief represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The book thief

Statement of responsibility

by Markus Zusak

Creator

• Zusak, Markus

Subject

• Books and reading
• Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction
• Death (Personification)
• Death (Personification) -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• Germany
• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• History
• Holocaust
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction
• Jews
• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
• Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War)
• 1933-1945
• KERA -- Heroes (GAR 2018)
• Storytelling
• Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction
• War fiction
• War fiction
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works

Genre

• Juvenile works
• War fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• History
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Awards note

Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2007.

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

823/.92

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.Z837

LC item number

Boo 2006eb

Literary form

novels

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adolescent