author: Markus Zusak
One reviewer says it is like Harry Potter meeting the Holocaust. But not really. It is a tween book. It bridges the gap 'tween teen and adult readers.
I have to say that this is a wonderful journey of words. The story is about how words can make such an impact on a people. Hitler used words.
The narrator is Death. He really doesn't like his job. The Book Thief is about a girl trying to make her way in a world of confusion and growing up during WWII. She is a child sent to another German family in order to keep her safe during the war. She steals books. One of them before she learns how to read. These books keep her life, family, and neighbors held together during air raids. Her willingness to share her gift with others help break down a feud long in the making.
The author writes beautifully. You are reading along and then comes a sentence, a series of them, maybe a paragraph that just kinda grabs and shakes you. It says 'hey! hey! Read me again!
It is a story of love, hate, joy and despair. But most of all about love.
4 comments:
Oh, that sounds pretty good. My favorite author of fiction (Lloyd Alexander) usually writes in what we used to call "young adult" or "juvanile" fiction. Unfortunately, the first sounds like it contains naughty stories that Michael Jackson might enjoy, and the second sounds like it contains a lot of potty jokes and "I know I am, but what are you" comebacks, so, though I hate the expression "tween," because it sounds like a person with pep invented it (and there are few things I hate more than pep), I guess that I'm okay with it.
We can always call 'a bridge between'.
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