Recommended Reading: The Thief Lord
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
352 pages
Two orphaned brothers, Prosper and Bo, run away from Hamburg to Venice to escape their aunt who only wants to adopt Bo. Their aunt hires a detective from Germany to find the two brothers, so Prosper and Bo have to elude him as well as try to survive. They find shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old Scipio. Little is known about him, even by his friends. They only know that he claims to be the Thief Lord and mysteriously disappears and appears with stolen treasures to provide them with enough money when they need it.
5 comments:
And what's your opinion of this book?
I like it very much =D You should read it!
I have tons of reading to do for my classes. D:
Besides, I still have some other books that I want to read. =P
oh! Ender's Shadow was really good also! I liked the ending =D With a lot of the books, the endings are weak, but this one was really good =D
Stop tempting meeeee. I have no time to read for leisure. =(
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