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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?

Amazon.com ReviewImagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel The Thief Lord, first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective's office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz's services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb's recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of c

Who reads The Thief Lord?

Author

Cornelia Funke, Christian Birmingham, Angelika Lundquist-Mog, Cornelia Caroline Funke, Yosefyah Simon

Publisher

Turtleback Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780606146869

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Adventure Stories & Action

Rating

3.95 / 5 (397 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14