Be Strong Kiddo

 The protagonist of my novel, “The Book Thief” is a young girl named Liesel Meminger. Liesel “[is] skinny and pale”, and “had sores on [her] lips” (Page 24). Her impoverished family of three, consisting of Liesel, her mother, and her baby brother live in Germany during the World Wars. The mother, not having enough money to support her children, takes them away to live in a foster home. To the utter horror of Liesel and her mother, the baby brother dies during the train ride. Grief stricken, Liesel steals a gravedigger’s book after burying her brother to have a memoir of him. She then arrives at her foster home where she tries to stay out of conflict with her short-tempered foster mother. At night, she has conflict with herself when nightmares of her dead baby brother haunt her. The only joy and motivation in Liesel’s life lie within her caring foster father, and the gravedigger’s book.