She is taunted by her schoolmates who chant 'dummkopf' ('dunce') at her. When the teacher asks Liesel to write her name on the chalkboard, she is only able to write three Xs, revealing to her classmates that she is unable to write. Rudy Steiner, a boy who lives next door, accompanies her on her first day of school. Liesel is then brought to her new home in Munich, where she meets her new foster parents Rosa Hubermann and Hans Hubermann. Liesel steals her first book, titled The Grave Digger's Handbook, when it falls out of the gravedigger's pocket.

On the way, her brother dies and is buried next to the tracks. In one of the opening scenes, Liesel is traveling with her mother and younger brother on a train. In February 1938, a voice representing Death tells about how the young Liesel Meminger has piqued his interest. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil But in times of war there are many threats and the lives of Liesel, her family and friends will never be the same. One day, Rosa asks Liesel to deliver laundry to the Mayor and Ilsa invites Liesel to go to her library and tells that she can visit her to read whenever she wants. Meanwhile Hans hides the Jewish Max Vandenburg, who is the son of a deceased friend that saved his life in the war, in the basement of his house and Liesel becomes his friend. During a Nazi speech where the locals are forced to burn books in a bonfire, Liesel recovers one book for her and the Mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann witnesses her action. When Hans discovers that Liesel cannot read, he teaches her using her book and Liesel becomes an obsessed reader. Liesel befriends her next door neighbor, the boy Rudy Steiner, and they go together to the school.

Her stepmother, Rosa Hubermann, is a rude but caring woman and her stepfather, Hans Hubermann, is a simple kind-hearted man. Liesel is delivered to a foster family in a small town and later she learns that her mother left her because she is a communist. Her mother buries the boy in a cemetery by the tracks and Liesel picks up a book, 'The Gravediggers Handbook', which was left on the grave of her brother and brings it with her. In 1938, the young girl Liesel Meminger is traveling by train with her mother and her younger brother when he dies.

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