The father of this novel's protagonist spends his free time playing the accordion, and shelters (*) Max Vandenburg, a Jewish fistfighter who escapes the train to Dachau.
After a soccer ball strays too far and is crushed by an oncoming car, the protagonist of this novel brings it to her friend as the first in a series of gifts. Whenever he runs, a boy in this novel covers himself in charcoal, to imitate his idol Jesse Owens. A character in this novel records his feelings for his crush in a book called The Word Shaker, printed on the whited-out pages of a copy of Mein Kampf. The father of this novel's protagonist spends his free time playing the accordion, and shelters (*) Max Vandenburg, a Jewish fistfighter who escapes the train to Dachau. The narrator of this novel, who reveals himself in its opening pages to be death, informs the reader that the majority of its characters, such as Rudy Steiner, will perish in the Allied bombing of the German town of Molching. For 10 points, name this novel by Australian author Markus Zusak, titled for Liesel Meminger's habit of pilfering tomes.
After a soccer ball strays too far and is crushed by an oncoming car, the protagonist of this novel brings it to her friend as the first in a series of gifts.
The Book Thief