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Den of thieves

2009
Cat Royal, raised by London theater owner Mr. Sheridan after being abandoned as an infant, travels to Paris at his request to spy on the revolution and ends up trying to save her friends who have been charged as traitors.

Gideon the cutpurse

being the first part of the Gideon trilogy
2006
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.

Oliver Twist

1996
An adaptation of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

Hostage

2000
When eleven-year-old Kaci interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house, she and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage by the desperate and ruthless criminals.

Jesse James

1997
Discusses the life of Jesse James, from his beginnings as a teenage guerilla soldier for the Confederates, through his career as a robber with the James-Younger gang, to his murder at the hands of a former gang member.

Mystery at Chilkoot Pass

2002
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.

The crook who crossed the Golden Gate Bridge

2011
In San Francisco on a field trip, James "Gum" Shoo and his friends get caught up in a wave of pickpocketing.

The mystery of Cabin Island

1966
On an ice-bound, snow-covered island, Frank and Joe attempt to solve the mystery of a boy's disappearance and the theft of a priceless collection of antique medals.

Museum of thieves

2010
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.

What the ladybug heard

2010
Although much quieter than the farm animals that moo, cluck, or oink, a gentle ladybug is instrumental in foiling a plan to steal the farm's prize-winning cow.

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