The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, is the story a girl who goes to live with a foster family just outside of Munich during World War II. Her brother has died and she is trying to cope with losing him. The story is told through the eyes of death and chronicles, not a concentration camp survivor, but a german citizen trying to survive in a cold unforgiving world. The girl, Liesel Meminger, the book thief, begins to steal books as a way to get back at the world for her mother leaving and her brother dying. When bombing raids threatens her home, she shares her stolen books with her neighbors and the Jewish man that is hiding in her basement.
I feel this book should be in every media center because of the point of view in which the story is told. Not just because it is Death telling the girl's story, but because it is her story and how the war and death effect those that were trying to survive outside of the camps. A different perspective about something that affected so many then and now.
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