Book burnings. Trains crammed with starving people. Forced, barefoot marches through the snow. The stories of Nazi Germany are ones everyone knows. But wait a second. This is just Liesel Meminger's ...

Narrated by Death itself, The Book Thief offers a unique and profoundly sad fictional window into Nazi Germany at the onset of World War II. The story follows Liesel Meminger, a 9-year-old girl who’s ...

This month’s flood of books, TV shows and DVD reissues about the assassination of John F. Kennedy underlines a recurring tendency in popular culture: the way it exploits — sorry, commemorates — the ...

Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) arrives in Germany at the age of 9. Her mother has given her up for adoption, saving her from the Nazis, but her brother—also selected by her adoptive parents to have ...

In this new musical adaptation of The Book Thief, Jewish boxer Max asks 12-year-old Liesel Meminger what she thinks are the most dangerous weapons in the world. “Bombs?” guesses Lisel. Max disagrees.

Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” is the emotional story of finding family and love. Set during the Holocaust, Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger and the boy-next-door, Rudy Steiner. Liesel and ...

Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush stars as Hans Hubermann in director Brian Percival’s big screen version of the critically acclaimed novel THE BOOK THIEF . In 1939, 12-year-old Liesel Meminger is ...

Based on the 2005 best-selling young adult novel by Markus Zusak, The Book Thief is the latest film to introduce children to the atrocities of World War II and Nazi Germany. Through the eyes of a ...

In partnership with Gulf Coast Reads, Holocaust Museum Houston is celebrating libraries and the right to read throughout the month of October. They will host a free screening of The Book Thief. Based ...

Successful young-adult novels more often then not involve vampires, magic, sci-fi or fantasy worlds. The beloved 2006 international best-seller "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak instead relies on the ...

The big screen adaptation of “The Book Thief” wants to put a human face on war and remind us that there are innocents and collateral damage on all sides, specifically young Liesel Meminger (Nélisse) ...