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~ Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature - 2006, Association of Jewish Libraries for Teen Book Award - 2006, Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature - 2007, Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers - 2007, Exclusive Books Boeke Prize - 2007, Buxtehude Bull Award - 2008, Kathleen Mitchell Award - 2008, Ena Noel Award - 2008, Margaret A Edwards Award - 2014, and more

It is 1939; Nazi Germany.  Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow.  It is a book, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery.  So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.  But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.