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Funke, Cornelia Caroline.

The Thief Lord / - New York : Chicken House/Scholastic, [2005], c2001. - 349 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

"This edition first printing, December 2005"--T.p. verso.

Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.

ISBN: 0439852714 9780439852715

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Runaway children--Juvenile fiction.
Thieves--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers--Juvenile fiction.
Detectives--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Street children--Juvenile fiction.
Runaways--Fiction.
Robbers and outlaws--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Detectives--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Street children--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Venice (Italy)--Juvenile fiction.
Italy--Juvenile fiction.
Venice (Italy)--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.F96624 / Th 2005

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]