thieves

Thea Sisters travel to Istanbul by way of the Orient Express to return a stolen wedding dress to a museum and try to spoil the Acrobat Thief's plan to swipe the artifact.

Young Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City, a former penal colony in the land of Serendair, where he and his friends face kidnapping and even worse dangers from the ruthless Thief Queen, who is trying to reclaim her runaway daughter.

Sentences with rebuses and illustrations tell the story of Skippyjon Jones's attempt to retrieve stolen beans from a bumblebee.

Three robbers terrify the countryside until they are subdued by the charm of a little orphan girl named Tiffany.

Sam and his Wild West Show entertain the townsfolk and catch two bank robbers before moving on to the next town.

After he and his father are arrested as pickpockets, Benno is separated from the bear he had raised and come to love when the bear is sent to a zoo and Benno is taken in by a kindly policeman and his wife.

When Professor Pepper gives Opie tickets to a ghost-raising instead of a nickel in payment for being guided through the dense fog, Opie manages to make money anyway by helping to thwart a bank robbery.

Chameleon the Spy outwits a phony prince and princess who have robbed Beantown residents of their jewels.

The sheriff of Ant Hill seems none too worried when the townsfolk inform him that someone--perhaps a gang of ladybugs--has been rustling their ant cows, but Deputy Harvey is determined to put a stop to the thievery.

Aaron is pursued by ex-convicts searching for a valuable turtle left at the pet store belonging to his parents.