Luca Padovan and Isabella Russo Performing a Song From "The Book Thief: The Musical"

School of Rock’s Isabella Russo and Luca Padovan took to the stage at the 2018 iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta to perform a song from The Book Thief, a new musical adaptation of Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel. Watch the two young stars perform the song in the video above. The Book Thief musical is now in development. The new work features songs by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Andersen and a book by Timothy Allen McDonald. Author Picoult is also co-writing the book to The Book Thief musical. Set during World War II, The Book Thief is about a German girl who steals books that are being destroyed by the Nazi regime.