The Book Thief
This book was one of my very favourite as a transition into more adult books. It was more sophisticated and elegant that younger books. The main character, Leciel, was born in Germany under the rule of Adolf Hitler. She has a very poor mother and is given to a foster care center. By her brothers graveside she finds a thing that changes her life, The Grave Diggers Handbook. It becomes her first act of book thievery. She falls in love with the words and the stories. This us something that I can relate to as a fellow lover of the flow of words. I love how the story progresses thereafter. With the help of her new according playing, foster father she learns to read the book. From then she starts to steal books from anywhere she can, book burnings, churches, even the mayors wife. When her family takes in a Jewish refugee her world is opened…