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English
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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.
2) The thief
Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 1
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
Author
Series
Six of crows volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge...
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret.
5) Rip tide
Author
Series
Dark life novels (Kat Falls) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more, lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
Author
Series
Midnight thief novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city"-- Provided by publisher.
7) Spy penguins
Author
Series
Spy penguins volume 1
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.
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Series
Robyn Hoodlum adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs in this futuristic retelling of Robin Hood.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ruthless Rose, once a fair maiden turned outlaw leader, faces a dilemma when her gang accidentally attacks a carriage carrying Prince Timo, a young royal fleeing the Firebrands, forcing her to choose between revenge and aiding the kingdom.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When they don't give us our birthright, we steal it. Roshan Chaya is out for justice. Abandoned by her parents at birth and adopted by the kingdom of Jwala's most notorious bandit before his brutal murder, she is now leader of the Shadow Clan, a gang of farmers-turned-bandits impoverished by the provincial governor's atrocities and corruption. Roshan's goal: to avenge her adoptive father and earn back rights and dignity for her people. Prince Navin...
11) Nameless queen
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Everyone expected the king's daughter would inherit the throne. No one expected me. It shouldn't be possible. I'm Nameless, a class of citizens so disrespected, we don't even get names. Dozens of us have been going missing for months and no one seems to care. But there's no denying the tattoo emblazoned on my arm. I am queen. In a palace where the corridors are more dangerous than the streets, though, how could I possibly rule? And what will become...
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Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 6
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
The Hardy boys agree to help a friend and his father find a family treasure. When the friends disappear, the sleuths find themselves faced with two mysteries.
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Series
Puzzling world of Winston Breen volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Winston Breen and his friends Mal and Jake accompany Mr. Penrose for a weekend of puzzles and games at the mansion of a famous musician. Over the course of the weekend, some guests' prizes and belongings inexplicably disappear. As the group continues with the elaborate puzzles-which the reader is invited to solve too-some of the guests try to figure out who is stealing things, and others become suspects. But in the end it's Winston who stumbles upon...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 31
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
An archaeological expedition in the West turns into a desperate attempt to capture robbers and an escaped convict.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy Land, but now that the Faranji invaders have gotten reinforcements from Richard the Lionheart, all she wants to do is get herself and her sister home alive. But Zeena, a soldier of honor at heart, refuses to give up the fight while Jerusalem remains in danger of falling back into the hands of the false Queen Isabella. And so,...
16) Capture the flag
Author
Series
Silver Jaguar Society volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, José, and Henry, all descendants of the Silver Jaguar Society, pursue suspects on airport carts and through baggage handling tunnels while stranded at a Washington, D.C., airport during a snowstorm.
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Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Evie Baker, storyteller, yearns for adventure, so she ventures into the Old Forest hoping to catch a Fel and compel it to use its magic to grant her wish; instead she stumbles into a nest of robbers and has to be rescued by the Queen's Guard--but maybe it is the start of a dangerous adventure because she and her new friend Max, a Guard messenger, have stumbled unto a conspiracy.
19) Stage Dreams
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English
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In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) puts readers in the saddle alongside Flor and Grace, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, as they team up to thwart a Confederate plot in the New Mexico Territory. When Flor—also known as the notorious Ghost Hawk—robs the stagecoach that Grace has used to escape her Georgia home, the first thing on her mind is ransom....
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
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