✦RBLevel 9 · Elite PrepUS Grades 11–12Lexile 730LAR (ATOS) 5.1 · First published 2005
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of The Book Thief to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Knopf Books for Young Readers paperback, ISBN 9780375842207. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
📰 Germany, 1933–1945
Jesse Owens in Berlin, the book burnings of 1933, ration cards, the Western Front of Hans’s war, Stalingrad and the bombing of German cities — the dated, checkable world a German child lived through.
SUPPORTING
📖 How the Novel Is Built
Death as narrator, color imagery, a story told in pieces, a story within the story, Rudy as a foil, and a frame that closes the book.
SUPPORTING
🔬 Science on the Home Front
How an accordion makes its sound, what snow is made of, how a broken bone heals and how a firestorm forms.
