In this new musical adaptation of The Book Thief, Jewish boxer Max asks 12-year-old Liesel Meminger what she thinks are the most dangerous weapons in the world. “Bombs?” guesses Lisel. Max disagrees.

Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” is the emotional story of finding family and love. Set during the Holocaust, Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger and the boy-next-door, Rudy Steiner. Liesel and ...

Exclusive: Get a first look at The Book Thief musical before it plays in Coventry and Leicester next month. The musical, based on Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel of the same name, follows Liesel Meminger, ...

Exclusive: Take a look at the company of The Book Thief in rehearsals ahead of runs at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry and Leicester Curve. The musical, based on Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel of the same ...

Nélisse, a French Canadian, took on the role of Liesel Meminger in 2013's The Book Thief, a movie adaptation of Markus Zusak's bestselling 2006 novel. When Liesel was sent to live with foster parents ...

(“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak, Knopf, $16.95.) Book burnings. Trains crammed with starving people. Forced, barefoot marches through the snow. The stories of Nazi Germany are ones everyone knows.

The life of Dr. Danuta Zamojska Hutchins of Storm Lake, Iowa, shares some parallels with the 2010 One Book One Siouxland book choice. Hutchins, who was born in Warsaw, Poland, experienced the Nazi ...