The Thief Lord /
Cornelia Funke ; [English translation, Oliver Latsch].
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Scholastic, 2002.
- 349 p. : ill., map.
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.