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After being drafted into the First World War Max meets a Jew named Erik. They became friends extremely quickly. They bonded over their pacifism, drinking, gambling, and the accordion. When they were about to be sent to fight in the war Erik volunteered that Max should write letters for their superior officers instead of going to fight. This was successful. Max was the only survivor of the battle that day.

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Max is a well-known street fighter in Stuttgart. A single mother raised him because his father died in WWI. Max is always willing to fight for himself. He always fought one teenager named Walter Kugler who always beat him up. That was until something snapped in Max he just kept getting back up and eventually knocked out Walter. In the end, they fought 13 times with Max only winning three times. They ended up becoming friends because of their fights.

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During the 1936 Olympics, a young Rudy Steiner snuck off to try and imitate his new hero Jesse Owens. He painted himself black with coal and went to the Hubert Oval to try and run the 100-meter dash. After running the race he was caught by his father who scolded him for imitating someone who was not a desirable. Rudy's father talks to Rudy about how he needs to stay safe and not imitate a non-desirable.

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After the Nazi Party started to persecute Jews Hans decided to apply for a membership in the Nazi Party. After seeing that one of his friends' house was vandalized for him being a Jew Hans decided to repaint his house. After he painted the house he did not join the party and was not allowed to join the party any more.

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In the prologue, Death tells of the three times that he saw Liesel. Foreshadowing all of the events to occur later on in the book. He talks about her brother's death, a plane going down, and the destruction of her new home.

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On the way to be adopted Werner fell ill with a bad cough. When the coughing stopped. Liesel woke up to see her brother dead in her mother's arms. He is taken out into the freezing cold. His mother and sister cry over his dead body.

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After the funeral for her now deceased brother, and after trying to dig up his body she sees a black book fall out of one of the Gravedigger's pockets. After being dragged away from the grave she picks up her first stolen book. The Gravedigger's Handbook.

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Liesel is brought to Himmel street by an adoption agent named Frau Heinrich. She originally refuses to get out of the car. She is eventually lured out of the car by the smooth-talking Hans Hubermann. She was still extremely resistant when she was brought to the house.

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After Liesel is dragged into the house Rosa begins to insult Liesel. After being insulted Hans begins to stick up for Liesel. He bonds with he by teaching her how to roll cigarettes. She eventually warms up to the family. Rosa wants Liesel to call her Mama and Hand Papa.

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Liesel was finally let out into the street after a few days and a bath. In the streets, she meets Rudy. She gets into a snowball fight with Rudy. They became swift friends. They begin to walk to and from school together. Rudy shows Liesel all of the things to see in the city.

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During the night Liesel suffers from nightmares of her dead brother and the day that he passed away. She often woke up from these nightmares wetting her bed. On one of these nights Hans came in to help her change the sheets. When he takes the sheets off of the bed the book falls out. He asks her about the book and how she got it. After finding out she stole it he promised to not tell Mama and would try to teach her to read.

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During the first major book burning in the town center Liesel gets the urge to steal again. She gets the urge when she sees that there is a single book that survived the fire. She decided to steal the book and hide it in her shirt. As she was fleeing she realized that someone saw her steal the book and she was going to be in trouble.

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Liesel had to go deliver the laundry to the Mayor's house. She is terrified of going to the house because she knows that the Mayor's wife was the one who saw her steal a book. She finally was able to go to the house after a few weeks. The Mayor's wife stopped her before running away and invited her inside into her personal library. Liesel was completely shocked by the library. After a bit she finally decided to leave and come back more.

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Late one night after many months of planning Max finally came to the Hubermann House. He used a key he was given by Hans to get into the house. Once he was in he asked Hans two questions. In turn Hans took him in and decided to hide him in his house because of a promise that he made with Max's father.

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After Liesel finds out about Max she is given a lecture by Hans to make sure that she will never tell anyone about Max. Hans tells her that this information can get them in serious trouble. He tells her that this is an extremely serious topic. He says that he will burn all of her clothing if she tells a single soul about Max. He tells her that Max, Rosa and Himself will get arrested if anyone finds out. In the end the entire family makes up and say that all is good.

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After Max started to form a bond with Liesel he thought to do something nice for her. He decided to make a book for her. He rips out the pages of Mein Kampf and paints them in the basement. He creates a book titled
The Standover Man. The book is about how Max was lonely and then he met Liesel and she was a great friend.

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Several months after Max arrived at the Hubermann house he finally thought it was time to trim his hair. Hans and Rosa were arguing over who was going to cut his hair and how it will look. In the end Max decided that he wanted Liesel to cut his hair because he had started to grow close with her. The hair is slightly messed up but Max is thankful.

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When Liesel went to the Mayor's house to read a book the Mayor's wife gave her a letter telling her about them being fired. After seeing the letter Liesel blows up at the wife. She yells at her about abandoning them. She yells about the Ilsa giving her a book out of pity. Finally she yells about Ilsa's dead son and how she was being pathetic because of it. In the end she went home and cried to Mama about everyone firing them.

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One day after Max finished doing his workout he fell asleep. Liesel came down into the basement to see him. She saw that he was asleep and decided to take a look into his journal that he kept. What she saw was Max's vision of the Nazi regime. She was terrified of what she saw. When Max woke up he scared Liesel. Liesel said he scared her and Max fell back asleep.

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After they had a snowball fight in the basement while enjoying their Christmas Max fell ill. His health began to decline rapidly. He began to have more hallucinations of fighting Hitler. He snowballed until February. In February he collapsed in front of Hans and was taken up to Liesel's room. Liesel begins to blame herself for everything. She is comforted by Hans and Rosa.

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After several days and constant waking up just for seconds, Max finally wakes up fully. To let Liesel know about his waking up Rosa goes to the school and pulls Liesel out of class to "yell" at her. In secret, she told Liesel that he was awake and enjoyed all of the gifts that Liesel collected for him. After school, Liesel rushed home to see Max.

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While Liesel is out playing soccer she sees a group of Nazis going around checking people's basements to see if they can be air raid shelters. To warn her family she gets injured to get her Papa out to her. She is able to warn her family. They are able to hide the soldier in time to where when the Nazi came and checked their basement Max was not found out. When he left they went down to comfort Max.

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Rudy wants to get back at his former abusive Hitler Youth leader. He trains for weeks to be able to win all the races at a Hitler Youth festival. He easily wins the 1500, 400, and 200 meter races. He jumped getting disqualified from the 100 meter race. He said that he did it on purpose when he was asked why he did it.

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During the middle of the night the air raids began. Hans had to wake up Liesel and tell her they had to go. They had to go to the Fiedlers house. They are stuck with multiple families. Everyone stayed quiet and tried to not fight until the end of the raid. After the raid the Hubermanns rushed back to their house to check on Max. Max told them that he went up to the window and looked outside.

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After hearing Liesel read during the air raids she decides to hire Liesel to read the book to her. She hires her for her rations of coffee. Rosa decides that Liesel will do it and agrees to send her over every Monday and Friday.

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While Liesel and Rudy were playing on the streets they heard something. The thing turned out to be a group of Jews being marched to a concentration camp. Hans tries to stop them, but they go anyway. When they reach the street they see a large group of Jews in horrible condition. Hans sees an old man constantly falling and looking extremely anguished. He decided to go help the man and give him a piece of bread. The guards see him doing this and beat the man he helped then beat Hans. Hans was highly criticized for what he did.

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After Hans helped the Jew he decided that their house was no longer safe. He recommended that Max leave. Max left and left a gift for Liesel but said that she wasn't ready for it yet.

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While Rudy was playing with his younger siblings two officers came into the Steiner house to inform them that Rudy was selected to join an elite camp for talented children. His parents beg for him to not be taken. In the end, Alex Steiner refuses for them to take Rudy. The men eventually leave and Rudy said that he was willing to go.

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Hans gets accepted into the Nazi Party and sent to war

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Hans gets accepted into the Nazi Party and sent to war

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Hans received a letter from the Nazi Party saying that he was accepted into the party. Since he was a member of the party he was sent off to go fight in the war. The night before he was sent off he gets completely wasted at the local pub and stumbles home. Everyone is sad about his departure. Rosa clings onto his accordion to sleep at night.

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Rudy and Liesel decide that they wanted to give food to the Jews marching towards Dachau. They had multiple pieces of bread and laid it in the road in front of the Jews. They noticed the bread and took it for themselves. Eventually the soldiers noticed the bread and began to chase Liesel and Rudy. They eventually catch Liesel and kick her in the butt and curse her out, but let her go.

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Rosa finally decided to give Liesel her gift. She gives her the present for Christmas. His present was a book entitled The Word Shaker The book was about how words helped Hitler come to power. It also talked about the friendship that formed between Max and Liesel and how Liesel was very important to him.

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On a routine trip Hans was forced to give up his seat to another person. Later on the tire of the truck exploded causing it to roll over breaking the neck of the man who stole Hans' seat. Hans only suffered a broken leg. Since he was injured he was sent back to Molching to do office work. He was first sent home to rest for a while. He sent a letter to his family telling them about his return.

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During one of the normal parades of Jews through the town center. Among them is Max. Liesel spots Max in the crowd and runs to him. Once she reached him they embraced in a tight hug. Max tells her that they caught him half way to Stuttgart. Eventually a guard noticed them and grabbed Liesel and threw her into the crowd of onlookers. Max ends up getting whipped. While is is whipped and dragged away Liesel yells about the experiences that they had together.

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During the night while everyone slept Himmel street was bombed. Everyone died. They all died while they slept. Fortunately, Liesel was able to survive. She slept in the basement writing a book. She was dragged out of the basement by soldiers cleaning up the street. She saw all of the dead bodies of all of her dead friends and family. She ended up kissing the corpse of Rudy granting his final wish.

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After the bombing Liesel was taken to the police station because she had no where to go. In the end Ilsa Hermann came and took her home. Liesel was still shocked and slept a lot. She eventually met up with Alex to meet about the death of his family when he got home.

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After the end of the war Max began to search for Liesel. He goes into the Steiner tailor shop and asks to see her. She comes out and they embrace each other and cry on the floor at the sight of each other.

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Many years later Liesel passed away. She died at an old age. She moved to Australia and lived in the suburbs of Sydney. She had a husband, three children, and grandchildren. When she died her soul was sitting up and welcomed Death when he took her.