Not just for young adults--in fact, this book was released in Europe as an adult title--The Book Thief is a classic-in-the-making. Some have compared it as a cross between Slaughterhouse Five and The Diary of Anne Frank, and it has similarities between both.
Death is the narrator of this novel about a pre-teen girl living in a small town near Munich at the start of World War II. The historical detail is absorbing, as is the girl's coming-of-age story. Death, as a cordial--but not kind--observer, keeps the action not quite so disturbing because, as he says in the beginning, we all die. He foretells the events in The Book Thief, but we know that he will be there to gather each person's soul, as he does for us all. |
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