The Book Thief

  • Johann Hermann dies

  • Max Vandenburg goes into hiding after his neighborhood is raided by the Gestapo

  • Liesel's brother dies/Death is with them outside the train

    Liesel finds her brother dead on the train to Munich. He had been coughing and then he was just dead. Liesel's mother opened the door and she and Liesel exited the train, along eith two guards. The final decision on what to do with them was to take them to the next town and let them take care of their business there.
  • Liesel and her mother bury her brother

  • Liesel Arrives on Himmel Street after arriving in Munich earlier that day

  • Rosa lets Liesel out to play with the other kids for the first time.

  • Liesel starts Hitler Youth/ Band of German Girls

  • Rosa Huberman tells Liesel to call her mama

  • Liesel has a nightmare and wets the bed

  • Liesel begins to learn how to read.

  • Hans Hubermann met Walter Kugler

  • Hans takes Liesel to the Amper River

  • World War 2 begins

  • Liesel is moved up to her correct year in school because of her troublemaking.

  • Liesel finishes the Grave Digger's Handbook

  • Liesel receives two books as a Christmas present

  • Ernst Vogel stops having his laundry done by Rosa

  • Liesel becomes responsible for delivering and picking up the laundry

  • Liesel writes her first letter to her real mother

  • Hans and Hans Jr. have an argument about the Nazi Party

  • Liesel Meminger steals her second book

    Lisel also declares her open hate for Hitler, her classmate breaks his ankle, and Hans reveals that he tried to join the Nazi party but made a mistake.
  • Ilsa Hermann shows Liesel her library

  • We are introduced to Max, who is in hiding

  • Max's copy of Mein Kampf arrived with a key to 33 Himmel St taped inside the cover

  • Rudy gets mad at Liesel for wanting to take the washing by herself

  • Rudy and Liesel forst see the apples in Fritz Hammer's jacket

  • Rudy and Liesel follow Fritz Hammer and begin their careers as friut thieves

  • Liesel and Rudy find the single pfennig on the ground and go to Frau Diller's and buy candy

  • Rudy and Liesel trip Otto Sturm and steal the food that he is carrying with him

  • Liesel and Rudy go stealing with Artur Berg and his gang

  • Liesel and Rudy go stealing again and this time Rudy gets stuck on the fence

  • Max is on the train to Pasing and he is reading from Mein Kampf

  • Max arrives at 33 Himmel St.

  • Max Vanenburg wakes up after being asleep for three days and moves into the Hubermanns' basement

  • Arthur Berg moved to Cologne

  • Trudy Hubermann visited her parents for Christmas while Hans Jr. stayed away

  • Liesel got a book called The Mud Men for her birthday

  • Liesel gives Max a haircut after he asks her to

  • Liesel begins to scavenge for newspapers with empty crosswords for Max

  • Liesel begins to give Max weather reports

  • Max begins to envision himself fighting with Hitler

  • Liesel goes downstairs and finds out tht Max has been strengthining himself

  • Liesel comes home to find her family working on painting of the words of Mein Kampf so that Max will have a sketchbook or a journal.

  • Germany invaded Russia

  • Liesel gets offered a book by Ilsa Hermann and se refuses to take it, the Hermanns fire her family

  • Britain and the Soviets joined forces

  • Rudy gets on Franz Deustcher's nerves for the first time when he defends Tommy Muller

  • Rudy and Liesel meet Viktor Chemmel, go stealing with him, and decide that they never wnat to again,

  • Rudy and Liesel go to the mayor's house and Liesel steals a book. Rudy also leaves her shoes behind but goes back to fetch them in the end.

  • RUdy steals a potato from Mamer's

  • Rudy continues to smart off to Franz Deustcher and ends up getting a haircut, cracked ribs, and a black eye on the street.

  • Rud stops going to the Hitler Youth meetings

  • Viktor Chemmel throws The Whistler in the Amper River

  • Liesel brings Max snow

  • Max almost falls into the Hubermann's fire and is placed in bed.

  • Rosa begins to wonder what they would do with Max's corpse if he dies.

  • Rosa yells at Liesel for stealing her hairbrush in front of her class, but she also gives the toy soldier to Liesel and tells her that Max is awake.

  • Bomber planes flew towards Cologne

  • THe Nazis come to inspect peoples' basements so that they can designate more air raid shelters. Liesel gets home to tell Hans before the Nazis arrive so that Max can be protected as well as possible.

  • Death takes the souls of some French Jews

  • Rudy runs four races in a Hitler Youth carnival but only wins three

  • Rudy and Liesel go back to the mayor's house and Liesel takes the Duden Dictionary

  • The first air raid occurs

  • Max gets his first glimpse of the sky in twenty-two months

  • There is another air raid and Liesel reads to everybody in the air raid shelter

  • Frau Holtzapfel asks if Liesel will come over to her house and read for her. A barter is arraged and it ends up to where Frau Holtzapfel is going to give the Hubermanns her coffee ration.

  • Max Vandenburg leaves Himmel Street

  • There is a parade of Jews on their way to Dachau. Hans Hubermann tries ot give them bread and and he is whipped.

  • The Nazis examine three boys, picked for their outstanding academic and athletic records

  • The Nazis come to talk to the Steiners about Rudy and how they want him to go to a special Nazi school.

  • Hans Hubermann is accepted into the Nazi Party

  • Hans receives a letter telling him that he has been drafted intothe German Army

  • Hans Hubermann gets drunk

  • Hans Hubermann leaves for the Army.

  • Liesel sees Rosa in the kitchen with Hans's accordion

  • Hans Hubermann gets to attend his first raid with the LSE

  • Liesel and Rudy throw stale bread at the Jews so that they will have some food and they get caught

  • Rosa gives Liesel Max's book for her, The Word Shaker

  • Liesel's and Rudy's families spend Christmas together and they break into Rudy's father's shop and she "gets" Rudy's gift

  • Hans tells Liesel he almost responded to her letter as her mother