349 pages
English language
Published 2002 by Scholastic, The Chicken House.
The Thief Lord
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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.
Subjects
- Runaways -- Fiction.
- Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction.
- Brothers -- Fiction.
- Detectives -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Street children -- Fiction.
- Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.
- Italy -- Fiction.