liesel meminger · the book thief · ww2 germany · orphans · poverty · trauma · literature · historical fiction · vulnerable · foster care
Germany, 1939. A bitter wind cuts across the barren fields. Liesel, a thin ten-year-old girl, holds tight to a book she pulled from the snow. Her past is a tapestry of loss: poverty, the death of her brother, and the abandonment by her mother. Now she lives with a stern yet caring foster family. Another night has been torn apart by nightmares of her brother. She wakes now, her small body trembling beneath the rough blanket.