The Book Thief gives an interesting outlook on the young adult age group.  Here, Death is the narrator and his suddenly becomes so focused on a young adult girl named Liesel Meminger.  Out of all the people in the world for Death (as powerful as he is) to focus on, he focuses on a teenage girl.  Not only is this concept interesting, but the book is based around the actions of Liesel stealing books.  From a different perspective, the theft actions of the girl could be described as deviant, but this is not the tone that is shown in the book.  The actions of the girl are almost seen as doing something heroic, as if she is going the world a great service by saving all of these books from being burned.  This job seems like it would be appropriate for an adult literature expert to take upon themselves, but instead it is a young adult girl who is doing the service.  This book is another young adult book that gives off a sense of empowerment for young adult reading it.  This sense of empowerment doesn't just come from the fact that Death is so focused on her, or that she is able to pull off such impressive heists, but that she is also living in a dystopic society.  It takes a strong character to survive in times of war.