The Book Thief

Name: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak

By Markus Zusak

"The Book Thief" is a historical novel by Markus Zusak about a young German girl named Liesel Meminger who discovers the power of words and books as she steals them and forms a bond with her foster parents, a Jewish man hiding in her basement, and her friends during the horrors of World War II in Nazi Germany.