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1/13 "Prediction" My prediction for further happenings would be that lisle and Rudy become really good friends maybe even a couple when they grow up, but I also think lisle will get a good education from papa, and that she will somehow occupy more book s somehow. I also think that hopefully mamma will become nicer and softer towards lisle. Even though mama loves her, it doesn't always seem like she does. Also I hope that their family will get more foster kids so lisel can have brothers or sisters again. Also I think her bad dreams and bed wetting will stop. **__16/ 16__** 1/19 "How this Makes me feel" As I read, the Germans invade the town that lisel and her family live in. How I relate to this section of the book is very real. I would be over the top. I think I would be worried sick with fear for myself, my family, and my friends. Because I am not Jewish I don't think I would've been taken away, ( there could've been a chance) but just seeing all the others be taken away would be freaky enough. It would have been very sad to walk those streets where Jewish men and women had their shops, houses, etc. I can't say what I would have done for sure because the situation is something I wouldn't know how to decide upon if it really happened and I or people close to me were being threatened, but I hope I wouldn't heil Hitler. I don't have any personal respect for him or really any of his true supporters for that matter. He was a sick, cruel, hatred-minded man who should have had to gone through what his victims did. That is how I feel about this book. **__16/ 16__** 1/26 "Summary" A summary of the part of the book I read would be this: Lisle is finally staring to feel the least bit happy in her knew home with the Hubermans, one night when all the kids are required to march, lisle goes, and while she is there she ends up stealing a book from the fire that the Hitler supporters lit to burn all "trash", which was books, posters, etc. Also in this section mama starts having lisle take the washing to everyone, sometimes lisle and Rudy do it together, but lisle starts going on her own because the mayors wife starts letting lisle see and read her book collection. Also Rudy and Lisle start stealing with a group of older boys, so they aren't so hungry anymore either. **__16/ 16__** 2/3 "Special story Part" The part in the book that I'm going to write about is when Max wrote and drew a book for Liesel. It was Christmas at the Hubermsn house and there wasn't much money to go around. lisels parents had bought her a used book. Max had only been with the family for a short time so he didn't know of lisels birthday. He felt bad after the presents were given so weeks later he composed a book for Liesel.the book read about the times when they first met and how they we're similar to each other through their dreams. I thought this was really cool and thoughtful for max to do out of friendliness for lisel. __**16/ 16**__ 2/17 "Author's Craft" I think the authors best atribute that he gained in this story was having the book narrated by death. I've never read a book like this before and death brings a really unique and almost morbid feel to the book as he talks about the warm souls, the cold souls, eyes, colors, and hauntings. He goes from place to place picking up dead souls for his"boss" who never lets him rest. In some ways I feel sorry for death in a way having to see himself happen to someone maybe to young or very tragically. 15/ 16 3/1 "Me and the Book" The book that I'm going to be talking about now is entitled,"Cinderella in Cleats". The way I related to this book was really neat because I really could understand some issues that the main character, Whitney, went through. From friend trouble, to boys, I could always, in some way relate to the character and her certain situation. I think the author wrote the book for teen girls so we could think to ourselves, "So I'm not the only one going through this." The book was really self empowering as the main character always pushed through whatever she was facing. It gives you courage to do the things you want to do knowing someone else was able to do what they set their minds to.