The book thief / by Markus Zusak.
Record details
- ISBN: 0375831002 (trade)
- ISBN: 0375931007 (lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780375842207 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 552 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Michael L. Printz honor book, 2007. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Storytelling > Fiction. Death > Fiction. Jews > Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 5 of 12 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 12 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126025966783 | Perennial Reads | Available | - |
Covington Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126025966791 | Perennial Reads | Available | - |
Covington Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126025966809 | Perennial Reads | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126022713121 | YA Fiction | Checked out | 04/29/2024 |
Erlanger Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126026089502 | Perennial Reads | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126026089510 | Perennial Reads | Checked out | 05/09/2024 |
Erlanger Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126026089528 | Perennial Reads | Checked out | 04/01/2024 |
Erlanger Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126026089544 | Perennial Reads | Checked out | 04/27/2024 |
Independence Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126022713139 | YA Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
Independence Branch | YA ZUSAK M (Text) | 33126025966759 | Perennial Reads | Checked out | 05/07/2024 |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2006 March
Gr 9 Up -Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book-although she has not yet learned how to read-and her foster father uses it, The Gravedigger's Handbook , to lull her to sleep when she's roused by regular nightmares about her younger brother's death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayor's reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. Zusak not only creates a mesmerizing and original story but also writes with poetic syntax, causing readers to deliberate over phrases and lines, even as the action impels them forward. Death is not a sentimental storyteller, but he does attend to an array of satisfying details, giving Liesel's story all the nuances of chance, folly, and fulfilled expectation that it deserves. An extraordinary narrative.-Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
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