The Thief Lord /

Funke, Cornelia Caroline.

The Thief Lord / Cornelia Funke. - Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2005. - 483 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

English translation by Oliver Latsch.

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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Vaughan, Brian K. Runaways --Fiction.


Robbers and outlaws--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Detectives--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Street children--Fiction.


Venice (Italy)--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.


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