Book · Markus Zusak · 2007
The Book Thief
Scored from 3 calibrated reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the book is ranked. Cohort: 2000s books (387 books).
Is The Book Thief worth reading?
What is The Book Thief about?
Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl delivered to foster parents on Himmel Street in Molching, outside Munich, in 1939. She arrives unable to read, carrying a gravedigger's manual she stole at her brother's burial, and her foster father Hans — a house painter with an accordion and no gift for keeping his opinions quiet — teaches her from it in the basement at night. Liesel goes on taking books, from a Nazi bonfire and from the mayor's wife's library, while her foul-mouthed foster mother Rosa takes in washing and Rudy Steiner from next door trails after her. Then the Hubermanns hide Max Vandenburg, a young Jewish man, in the basement, and every stolen word gets more dangerous.
Markus Zusak is an Australian novelist whose other books include I Am the Messenger and Bridge of Clay.
Summary
The Book Thief is a fiction children's title by Markus Zusak. Publication year on the record is 2007.
The cohort it is ranked inside is the 2000s, 387 books wide. The calibrated sample is 3 reviewers — the ones whose rating history varies enough to place their own average — out of 6 who rated it at least twice. The sample-size-adjusted percentile pulls a sample that thin toward the corpus average.
- Cohort
- 2000s books · 387 books
- Calibrated reviewers
- 3
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