Part One.

Part one of The Book Thief is all about Liesel.

She is the "Book Thief". She was put in foster care, and ended up with Rosa and Hans Hubermann on Himmel ("Heaven") Street. She gets along with Hans, a house painter, because he teaches her to read her first stollen book, "The Gravedigger's Handbook", in their basement.

Frau Holtzapfel is in a feud with Rosa, and spits on the Hubermann's door every  night. Rosa makes Liesel clean it.

My favorite part of this part was Rudy.

Rudy was a boy from Liesel's new neighborhood, and one day after watching the Berlin Olympics, and Jesse Owens, he paints himself black with charcoal and runs the 100 meter relay at an empty track.

Rudy falls in love with Liesel. The two race the hundred meters and Rudy bets a kiss on it; they both slip before the finish, but Rudy says that one day Liesel will "be dying to kiss" him.