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The Book Thief underline book title
By: Markus Zusak
Lauren Conforti’s Bajillion Project-¨A new experience that can be added to the book.¨
As Liesel Meminger, now parentless, was taken to the gestapo capitalize “Gestapo” station, all she could think about was where she would go. Who would even take her? Most definitely, it would be different than Mama’s swearing and Pea lowercase “pea” soup and Papa’s accordion playing and book teaching. ¨Why me?¨ she always thought. ¨Why did I survive, and not Mama, Papa, or the Steiners?¨ ¨Sit down here, child,¨ An lowercase “an” officer instructed Liesel. He went into a back room and not soon after she heard arguing. The Gestapo had no idea what to do with the child who survived the Himmel Street bombing.
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No doubt she is traumatized from this! Good luck insert comma here to separate the compound sentence because I am done! There are more important things to be dealt with in this time of need!¨The plump man with a beet-red face stormed out. He almost knocked over a woman, a woman by the name of Ilsa Hermann. Behind her the mayor, her husband. ¨Everyone says there’s a girl, omit comma who survived Himmel Street,¨the fluffy haired woman said. The Gestapo officers pointed to Liesel. Not soon after, Liesel was being taken out by the mayor and his wife. She held the beaten up accordion in its case as she walked down the street toward her new family and the new house. Liesel had now been there for three months, but still constantly thought about her mama and papa, Rudy, and Max. Unless she is curled up in the library with a book, that’s all she ever thinks about. Visions of them all haunt her at night, and she always wakes up screaming. Ilsa always comes

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