80 pages • 2 hours read
Markus ZusakThe Book Thief
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Paired Texts & Other Resources
Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.
Recommended Texts for Pairing
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- nonfiction; the diary of a young Jewish girl who lives in hiding for two years during World War II
- connects with the themes of secrecy and first-person narration
- a memoir of the author’s experiences as a young Jewish boy imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust
- connects with the themes of secrecy, first-person narration
- poem by W.H. Auden that demonstrates reactions and emotions of German Jews during Nazi occupation
- connects through themes of resistance and first-person narration
Other Student Resources
- scene between Max and Liesel on writing
- can be used to compare character representations in cinema and in the book
- scene where Liesel steals the book from the fire
- includes themes of thievery, secrecy, and resistance
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By Markus Zusak
