The Book Thief
Book • 2005
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Mick
The main character's foster mother would strike her with a wooden spoon if she misbehaved.
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Addiction
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LiliMonty
Liesel's six-year-old brother Werner dies at the beginning, and SPOILER ALERT, Rudy and all his siblings, along with all the other kids on Himmel Street, die.
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creepycutie
At the end of the book, after Leisel’s neighborhood is bombed, it is revealed that both of her foster parents died in their sleep during the explosions.
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creepycutie
The book takes place during the Holocaust, and antisemitism is a constant theme throughout the book.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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It's actually a bomb. Not sure if it's nuclear
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