The Book Thief - Ends 26th January

[Sho]

The Book Thief is my favourite book. I've read it so many times and yet it still upsets me, even when the book itself tells you the ending half way through. I recommended the book to a friend and she refused to read it since she thought the title made it sound boring and although I love the book, to some extent I can see where she's coming from. Below is a summary of the book taken from my personal copy and what I'd like you to do is think of a new title for the book based on its blurb.

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Liesel Me*****r and her brother are being taken be their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many nearer encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is "The Gravedigger's Handbook", left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery.

So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, 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. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

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[James]

Fostering Love

[!:random!:!]

book love affair

[IzzyUhh]

Foster fear

[Martin]

Liesel and the Giant Banana

[Drake.]

How to distract yourself from World War II.

[username90210]

The Odd Thief.

- That is even more boring.

[Honor-Branch]

Liesel's Diesel

[!x!dude!x!2]

The Struggle

[Bankai90]

The Book Retriever