pickpockets

Fifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town's ghost walk, which allows Christine to meet all the visitors, including a mysterious young man who seems to know far too much about the rash of recent thefts in the area.

Pip, a pickpocket, picks a terrible target for his next heist, and instead of a jewel he finds he has lifted a small, leathery object of no apparent value--but soon he finds himself being hunted. The object, it turns out, is the Stone Heart, and when he took it, Pip accidentally broke an ancient spell. To fix his mess, Pip must team up with his sister, their friend Oni, Princess Georgette, and the witches of Clarel.

"Who will be the first to discover the secret of flight! Yesterday, Magpie was one of the best thieves in all of France. But an encounter with a boy dangling from the sky will change her life forever. And even though it ends in disaster, Magpie becomes enthralled by the idea of flying over the rooftops of Paris like the dangling boy. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be the first to discover the secret of flight. And Magpie has some ideas of her own. As the shadow of her thieving past looms over her, she'll realize that flight may be her only escape. In a test of bravery, imagination, science, and friendship -- Magpie, Pierre, and their pet birds are in a race against time. It'll take two children, a chicken, a duck, and a sheep to help them find the answers. But others, too, are determined to discover the Montgolfiers' invention..."--Provided by publisher.

"Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pickpocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods--a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have branded her an outcast. Can she use her cunning to put an ancient evil to rest?"--Provided by the publisher.

Young secret agent Amelia investigates three new cases, involving an evil genius who makes dogs howl, a sneaky science teacher who buys too much cereal, and a psychotic criminal picking the pockets of toy shoppers.

"Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods--a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have branded her an outcast. Can she use her cunning to put an ancient evil to rest?"--Provided by publisher.

Circus Splendido has come to Pleasant Valley but so have pickpockets who are stealing wallets, cell phones, and jewelry from the audience as they watch the performances, so the police chief asks Jerry and Maya for help again in collecting clues and sniffing out suspects.

When Danny accidentally buys an elephant, he accepts a job from a zookeeper to ride the elephant from Edinburgh to Manchester that turns into a journey that captures the attention of everyone in the country.

"It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks."--Dust jacket.

When his gift for pickpocketing is noticed by the mysterious Finn Argos, Colm begins training to become a member of Thwodin's Legions, a strange group of warriors, mages, and hunters who search for treasure.