(Click the character infographic to download.) Klepto With A CauseLiesel Meminger is the hardworking, book-thieving, kind-hearted star of the novel. She loves books so much, she steals them... eve...

(Click the character infographic to download.) The Jewish Fist FighterThis guy is a fighter in just about all the ways someone can be a fighter. But that doesn't make him a hardened man: our Max is...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Hans Is The ManWe all wish we had a father figure as crazy-awesome as Hans. He's warm-hearted, totally morally upright, strong and compassionate. Oh y...

A Rosa By Any Other Name Would Be As StrictAww, Rosa. We start this booking thinking she's going to be a textbook Mean Mommy. But by the time we're done with the novel, we realize that Rosa is as l...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Death And HumanityDeath is our guide and narrator to The Book Thief. But don't go cowering under the covers on his account. For one thing, Death a...

Walter Kugler is Max's good friend and former fist fighting partner. Walter is conscripted into the military and takes Max to a hiding place on November 9, 1938. This is the date of Kristallnacht,...

Hans Junior is the son of Hans and Rosa. He's a dedicated member of the Nazi Party. His disgust with his father's lack of allegiance to the party causes him to stop talking to him. According to Dea...