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Liesel Meminger is 9 years old when the book begins. She at first cannot read and through hard work is able to read by the end of the book. She gets her books in a variety of ways and spends a good chunk of the day reading them. She has a brother but he dies in the very beginning before she moves in with the Hubermanns. Although at first she must get used to the Hubermanns she begins to love them. She soon meets Max and becomes very attached to him. By the end of the book Liesel has written ...