The Book Thief/YMMV

• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The reunion of Max and Liesel. Both of them.
  • Not-leaving: An act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
  • Liesel finally reconciling with Ilsa Hermann.
• Iron Woobie: A vast majority of the cast. World War Two does that to people. Though a notable example is Death, who has the most miserable job on Earth and still cares about humans.

You see?
Even death has a heart.

• Tear Jerker: Considering what the book's about, are you really surprised?
  • Among others, there's Michael Holtzapfel's suicide, Rudy giving the teddy to that pilot, Death's way of describing Rudy when the bombs fall, and way, way more.
  • She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips.
  • The Standover Man is somewhere between this and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. A Jewish man writing about his friendship with a German girl on painted-over pages of Mein Kampf? Yeah. That's sad.
  • The death of Hans and Rosa and how Death remembers them.
  • This Troper has read the book several times over and STILL sobs like a child every time the last bit comes up.
  • This little line near the very end of the book:

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.

• • Liesel imagining Hans sitting up and playing the accordion when she lays it on his chest after he dies.
  • Pretty much anything that's not a Crowning Moment of Funny or a non-Tear Jerker Crowning Moment of Heartwarming is a tearjerker. This book is full of them.
• Toy Ship: Rudy/Liesel before they grow into teenagers.