The Thief Lord
By: Cornelia Funke ; [English translation, Oliver Latsch].
Contributors: Latsch, Oliver.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Scholastic; The Chicken House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Runaways -- Fiction.; Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction.; Brothers -- Fiction.; Detectives -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Street children -- Fiction.; Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.; Italy -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.