In the section, The Hidden Sketchbook, there was another raid a few days befor Christmas. When everyone arrived to the Fiedlers' shelter they all waited and looked at Liesel expectantly. "Papa's voice arrived, loud in Liesels' ears. 'And if there are anymore raids, keep reading in the shelter.' She opened the book, and again, the words found their way upon all those present in the shelter" (Zusak 442).
When they returned home Rosa told Lisel to come with her. "She walked to the living room and took the sheet from the edge of her mattress. In the side, there was a sewn-up slit. Rosa cut it carefully open and inserted her hand, reaching in the length of her entire arm. When it came back out, she was holding Max Vandenburg's sketchbook" (Zusak 442-443). Rosa gave her the book, "I think you've always been ready, Liesel. From the moment you arrived here, clinging to that gate, you were meant to have this" (Zusak 443). Liesel wanted to read the book in the basement, but Mama convinced her to stay upstairs. "There's a reason Max got sick down there," she said, "and I can tell you one thing, girl, I'm not letting you get sick'" (Zusak 443).
Liesel read The Word Shaker in the kitchen.
