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1) Oliver Twist
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
5) Spy penguins
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Young penguins Jackson, also known as Secret Agent 00Zero, and his inventor-friend, Quigley, investigate who is stealing rare fish from the Rookeryville aquarium, hoping to prove themselves to the Frosty Bureau of Investigation.
Author
Series
Keepers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Spunky twelve-year-old Goldie, Toadspit, and the other children face up to Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians, and an army of mercenaries who have captured the city of Jewel.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Petunia, youngest of the dancing princesses, is ambushed by bandits in wolf masks on her way to visit an elderly neighbor, the line between enemies and friends becomes blurred as she and her sisters get a chance to end their family's curse once and for all.
11) Once upon a toad
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When her mother goes on a NASA mission, Cat Starr is sent to live with her father, stepsister Olivia, and younger brother Geoffrey, but interference by her inept fairy godmother causes toads to appear when Cat speaks and gems to fall from Olivia's mouth, bringing one to the attention of jewel thieves and the other to a secret government laboratory.
12) City of lies
Author
Series
Keepers trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Goldie, impulsive and bold, relies on her skills as a liar and a thief to try to rescue her captured friends from the child-stealers running rampant in the City of Spoke.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Goldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone she loves.
Author
Series
Brixton brothers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Super edition volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Paskey, owner of the Book Nook, plays an April Fools' Day prank on Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. They hatch a plan to get back at him, but then the bookstore is robbed--no joke! Can the kids track down the crook? Or will this April Fools' be an April fail?"--
Author
Series
The Gideon trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.