The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Here are some of my favorite examples of model writing from The Book Thief:

"It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow.  Like it had pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater.  Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their skins.  Trees wore blankets of ice" (pg. 6).

"The last time I saw her was red.  The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring.  In some places it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness" (pg. 12).

"Sitting in the water, she imagined the smell of it, mapped out on her papa's clothes.  More then anything, it was the smell of friendship, and she could find it on herself, too" (pg. 72).

"She was the book thief without the words.
"Trust me though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and wring them out like the rain" (pg. 80).