Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", the Printz Honor Book effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something mooving, real, and wholly original.
Set during World War II in Germany, Zusak's grounbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing, encounters something she can't resist: books.
The acclaimed author of "Dramarama" and "The Boy Book" now delivers a story about a girl who goes from being mildly geeky to a teenage knockout to ... a criminal mastermind?
eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak.
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