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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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.
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English
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The enchanting international bestseller with bonus back matter and a beautiful new cover!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.Propser and Bo relish their new "family" and life of petty crime. But their...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel to Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
5) Inkheart
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
6) Oculta
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Series
Forgery of magic volume 2
Language
English
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A sequel to Nocturna finds a newly emancipated Finn unexpectedly installed as the new leader of a powerful crime syndicate at the same time Alfie is confronted by the mysterious organization behind his brother's assassination.
After joining forces to save Castallan from an ancient magical evil, Alfie is finally ready to take on the mantle of crown prince. His first task: preparing for the peace talks with Castallan's former colonizers, the nation...
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Series
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KBS
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Jiadin armies are infiltrating rogue Khadoran clans with a plan to bring havoc to the country, and Lord Marak appears to be the only lord willing to risk his troops to stop them. Badly outnumbered, the Torak lord seeks help in the capital only to find out that several powerful Khadoran lords are trying to assassinate him.
Joined by Sakovan spies and a Fakaran thief, Lord Marak realizes that he may have underestimated his enemies as all of...
Joined by Sakovan spies and a Fakaran thief, Lord Marak realizes that he may have underestimated his enemies as all of...
8) Two Cats
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English
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Politicians are nothing more than thieves and crooks, as everyone surely knows. Nowhere is this statement truer than in Harael, a city where a thief-lord's reputation is everything, and stealing jewel-encrusted valuables in the dead of night is more about political intrigue than monetary gain.
So when Lord Vincent Tucat learns he's to be robbed, the idea of embarrassingly turning the tables on his unknown enemy and further enhancing his own reputation...
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The masterful conclusion to the epic, award-winning, NYT bestselling INKHEART trilogy by internationally acclaimed author Cornelia Funke.The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead...
10) Prince of Fire
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Series
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English
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I'm Zayde. Master thief lord, wanted criminal... and college student.
I can't wait to graduate from Ashana University. I went to school to make my mom happy, but honestly, I'd rather be robbing jewelry stores than going to class.
Until she shows up. The literal girl of my dreams.
I've been having these nightmares... one where I believe I'm some prince of thieves, and the girl in my history class is a queen.
Crazy, right? Except it's really...
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Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 2
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English
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The captivating sequel to INKHEART, the critically acclaimed, international bestseller by Cornelia Funke--available for the first time in a beautifully designed trade paperback!Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller...
12) Chloe's Fathers
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Series
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English
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My name is Chloe Blackthorn, and I am a Thief.
Lord Marcus Thunderhammer, High Lord Paladin of Ca'talls, a man of such noble birth, a man so beloved that people on the streets I ran said he should have been king, would have been king, if he were alive. Turns out, he is. He's now the High Marshall of Five Rivers, the Crescent City, city of trade and intrigue.
He's also my Father.
My past is catching up to me, and now that I know that,...
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English
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The stunning Inkheart trilogy is complete and available in this e-bindup! From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is getting new covers in anticipation of the long-awaited fourth book in the series.
One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle...
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English
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Hortense Marchand has played many roles, but never wife. Until one desperate marquess seeks the lady spy's help - and her hand... Thief. Spy. Wife. Orphaned as a child, Hortense has had to fight her way to becoming the ton's favorite private investigator. But for a woman who lives on the edge, the past is never dead. When her former spymaster asks her to find his wastrel brother Jamie, the Marquess of Clare, she thinks it's just one more job uncovering...
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
Español
Description
Huyendo de su tía, que intenta separarlos, Próspero y Bonifacio llegan hasta la maravillosa Venecia. Allí encuentran cobijo en una pandilla juvenil liderada por un misterioso cabecilla apodado Señor de los Ladrones = Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord.".
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's...
17) The thief
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Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 16
Language
English
Description
Longing for the man she left behind when she ran from a drug lord's family, former cat burglar Sola Morte returns to her past when he falls into a coma, but his secret may have her running again.
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Series
Scarlet novels (A.C. Gaughen) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Scarlet's true identity has been revealed and she has been forced to marry Lord Gisbourne and participate at court, acting the part of a noblewoman in hopes of helping her beloved Robin Hood's cause and forging a future with him.
19) Thief of shadows
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Series
Maiden Lane romances volume 4
Language
English
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When a dragoon captain begins hunting the masked avenger the Ghost of St. Giles, schoolmaster Winter Makepeace--the Ghost himself--must decide whether or not he can trust Lady Isabel Beckinhall with his secret.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...