The Book Thief Reading Schedule
Part:
Title:
Prologue “A Mountain Range of
Rubble”
Part 1
“The Grave Digger’s
Handbook”
Pages:
3-15 (12 pages)
Date Read:
Day 1 in class
19-80 (61 pages)
Part 2
“The Shoulder Shrug”
83-122 (39 pages)
Part 3
“Mein Kamp”
Part 4
“The Standover Man”
Part 5
“The Whistler”
125- 170 (45
pages)
173-238 (65
pages)
241-303 (62
pages)
Part 6
“The Dream Carrier”
Split between Day 2 and 3
(at “The Jesse Owen’s
Incident” on pg. 56)
Read in class Day 4, finish
for HW
Read in class Day 5, finish
for HW
Split between Day 6 and 7
(at “The Wrath of Rosa”)
Split between Day 7 and 8
and finish for HW that
weekend (at “The Losers”
Day 9 in class, finish for HW
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
307-350 (43
pages)
“The Complete Duden
353-403 (50
Dictionary and The Saurus” pages)
“The Word Shaker”
407-455 (48
pages)
“The Last Human”
459-493 (34
pages)
“The Book Thief”
497-539 (42
pages)
Epilogue “The Last Color”
543-550 (7 pages)
Split between Day 10 and
11
Day 12 and finish for HW
Day 13 in class, finish for
HW as needed
Split between Day 14 and
15 (stop at “Isla Hermann’s
Little Black Book”)
Day 15 or 16 (depending on
pace)