Imagine living during World War 2, what would be your feelings and emotions, happy, sad, scared! etc. We'll Liesel Meminger felt all of those feelings and emotions as she lived with Hans and Rosa Hubermann.

Liesel Meminger, moving to Himmel street right after the death of her brother and then being taken away from her mom. Once showing up Hans taking that father figure to Liesel and enjoying all of the attention given to her by Him. Then meting her best friend until his death which is only a few years away.  Although he dies she never forgets all of the memories they had throughout those few years.

This book is told through a character to explain the story and that character is Liesel. Firstly, Liesel shows the love that is built in to her and her new family. For example, when mama would call liesel a "Saumensch" and then told her that she only call that to the people she loves that showed me that family has true love. Secondly, she has only had one true friend on Himmel street and in all of Mulching and that is Rudy Stiener. They did almost everything together like go sneak into the mayor's house and play soccer. Finally, Liesel and her family did not have a lot of money to get food and other needed things. Instead they would trade things like Hans traded cigarettes for a book for Liesel. These are the ways that they introduced the characters throughout the book.

This family is very fortunate for where they live in Germany at this time. First of all, they have a house whereas a lot of people have a street to live on. Liesel has a second school and an arts facility in the basement and some kids didn't even go to actual school. Secondly, they had a soccer ball to play with on their spare time when no one else had one. Finally, there was no one getting taken away to concentration camps or people dying on there street that often so that helped Liesel not think of all if the bad times. This was Liesel's point of view of the setting at that time and to me she was very lucky

I really enjoyed this book as a World War 2 book. They did a really good job of describing how it was back then and I would rate this book 4 out of 5 stars. I would also recommend it for teenagers and young adults because I think that those audiences would enjoy reading such a compelling, intense novel like this.