The Book Thief

The Book Thief

Zusak, Markus(2005). A book thief. NY: Random House.

Liesel and her brother are taken to their foster parents by train by their mother.  Liesel brother Werner dies. Other people in Liesel’s
 life dies and she holds Hitler responsible. She is really fond of her foster father and the mayor’s wife.   She starts stealing books and sharing them with neighbors and friends.  She dies at the end of the book.  This book was too much about death.  I feel the intended audience for this book is 15 and up.  This is a good book for teachers to use because of the time period.  The story took place during World War II, Germany.  This could be a great way to expand on that time period because the book does showcase some great events.   This book follows Kohlberg’s post conventional development, because laws and rules conflict in this story. Liesel is stealing books, but she loves to read which is a good thing but it is bad because she stills. 

Linger

Stiefvater, Maggie (2010) Linger. NY: Scholastic Press.

Sam Roth is an eighteen-year-old werewolf. Sam has a girlfriend name Grace who has been bitten as a child but never turned.  Sam is committed to finding a cure of werewolfism.  Grace’s parents rebels against Sam and Grace’s relationship, so Grace moves in with Sam.  Grace and Sam figured that Grace will die because she never turns into a werewolf. Another werewolf re-infects Grace and she turns immediately into a werewolf.  Now Sam wants to be a werewolf again, so that he can be with his love.  The recommendation age for this book is 16-18.  The lessons from this book in my opinion is that we all have to change and when we do sometimes we have to let go of things that is common to us.  Havigurst’s theory of developmental task is that teens undergo changing relationships with parents and a need to develop an easy relationship with the opposite sex.  Grace had to undergo changes with her parents.  Adolescents have to adapt to their physical bodies as well.