This was a really good book, even though it's billed for young adults, I think it reads quite well across the board. But I'm not a good judge of that, I read a shockingly large amount of children's/young adult lit. I'm okay with that. Anyways, it's a book about a German girl during the Holocaust who has an unfortunate habit of stealing books...it's how she teaches herself to read. The novel is told from the point of view of Death. I'm really not doing this book justice by describing it...it's good: read it.