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Can I read The Thief Lord on EtoBox?
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, Christian Birmingham, Angelika Lundquist-Mog, Cornelia Caroline Funke, Yosefyah Simon is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Thief Lord about?
The enchanting international bestseller with bonus back matter and a beautiful new cover! <p>Two orphaned brothers, Prosper and Bo, have run away to Venice, where crumbling canals and misty alleyways shelter a secret community of street urchins. Leader of this motley crew of lost children is a clever, charming boy with a dark history of his own: He calls himself the Thief Lord.</p> <p>Propser and Bo relish their new "family" and life of petty crime. But their cruel aunt and a bumbling detective are on their trail. And posing an even greater threat to the boys' freedom is something from a forgotten past: a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.</p> <p>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. </p>
Who reads The Thief Lord?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Cornelia Funke, Christian Birmingham, Angelika Lundquist-Mog, Cornelia Caroline Funke, Yosefyah Simon
- Publisher
- Chicken House
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781903434703
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (397 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Herr der Diebe : mit Illustrationen der Autorin (2002)
- Herr der Diebe : mit Illustrationen der Autorin (2001)
- The Thief Lord (2002)
- The Thief Lord (2010)
- El Señor De Los Ladrones / the Thief Lord (Isla del Tiempo) (2002)
- The Thief Lord (BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (AWARDS)) (2006)
- Herr der Diebe : mit Illustrationen der Autorin (2000)
- El senor de los ladrones / The Thief Lord (La Isla Del Tiempo) (2005)
- El Señor de Los Ladrones (2000)
- The Thief Lord (2011)
- Herr der Diebe (2016)
- The Thief Lord (BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (AWARDS)) (2002)
- Herr der Diebe (2013)
- Herr der Diebe : mit Illustrationen der Autorin (2012)
- The Thief Lord (BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (AWARDS)) (2010)
- Herr der Diebe (2014)
- El Senor De Los Ladrones / Thief Lord (2008)
- El señor de los ladrones [R1] (2011)