The blurb reads:"Liesel, a nine year old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street with the bombs begin to fall."
It's written in the voice of Death, which takes a little bit of getting used to, but the concept is really good once you get your head around it.
So this young girl moves to an unfamiliar area with unfamiliar people, no family or friends around her. Death is telling us about her relationships with the kids on the street, one espeically who becomes her best friend, her new foster parents and the neighbours in the surrounding area.
World War 2 is probably one of my favourite history stories, but I have always read about it from a British point of view. I never really considered the impact it had on the German's, how many of them did not agree with what Hitler had to say, and how our bombing affected innocent neighbourhoods. Families pulled apart with homes and lives lost. This book gave an insight of a different perspective to an all so very familiar war.
