The Book Thief

This book is really interesting and I suggest that 6th graders and up read it. This book is mostly about Death himself narrating the story of Liesel, a German girl left with foster parents just before the outbreak of World War II. Along the way to her new home with her younger brother, he dies, and after the funeral Liesel steals "The Gravedigger's Handbook", though she cannot yet read. It is only the first of what will become a series of book thefts. As she settles in with her harsh but caring foster mother, Rosa, and kind foster father, Hans, she gets to know her poor neighborhood and learns to read. Her obsession with books grows as the war closes in, rationing is put in place, air raids begin, and Hans takes in a Jewish man to hide in the basement. And through it all, Death travels the Earth, taking in more and more souls every day. I kind of like that the author puts Death as the narrator because it really caught my attention and the book was really intereting!