Delaware Diamonds Award
2010 · High School · Nominee
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It is 1939 Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.
Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and closed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and closed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
Awards
Garden State Teen Book Award
2009 · Fiction (Grades 9-12) · Winner
Green Mountain Book Award
2009 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Iowa High School Book Award
2009 · Young Adult · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2009 · Senior/Grades 10-12 · Nominee
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2008 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Heartland Award
2008 · Young Adult · Nominee
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2008 · Ages 12 & Up · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2008 · High School · Nominee
Book Sense Book of the Year Award
2007 · Children's Literature · Winner
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2007 · Fourteen and Up · Recommended
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
2007 · Young Adult · Nominee
Sydney Taylor Book Award
2007 · Teen · Winner
Tayshas Reading
2007 · Young Adult · Commended
Michael L. Printz Award
2007 · Young Adult · Honor Book
Book Club Picks
2006 · Costco's Buyer's Pick
Cybils
2006 · Young Adult Fiction · Finalist
National Jewish Book Award
2006 · Children/Young Adult · Winner
Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007)
2006 · Gold · Winner
Quill Award
2006 · Young Adult/Teen · Nominee
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