When Zusak writes, “Some would say it was a miracle that she ever owned that book at all,” why does he write this? Consider the time period and what was going on when responding to this question.

This was World War two. Most people like Llesel's family were poor. The Nazi party banned and burnt a lot of books. Reading the "wrong" book could get a person in trouble. On top of that, Liesel did not know how to read.