Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together,...
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
Pandava volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. If that weren't bad enough, somehow Aru gets framed as the thief. If she doesn't find the arrow by the next full moon, she'll be kicked out of the Otherworld. For good. But, for better...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
Author
Series
Mr. Penguin volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Mr. Penguin: adventurer (and penguin)! He has a dashing hat. He has a battered satchel. He has a packed lunch of fish finger sandwiches. Now he just needs an adventure! So when Bouddica Bones from the Museum of Extraordinary objects calls for help, Mr. Penguin swings into action. Can he and Colin the spider find the museum's missing treasure before bandits do? Or is this the adventure Mr. Penguin should have never answered? -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Stick Cat volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Much to Edith's delight, she and Stick Cat are enjoying a lazy day at his apartment. But not for long. Soon, strange and threatening sounds come from the ceiling. What could it be? An elephant? Santa?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced to search for an ancient fae relic on behalf of a sadistic royal sorcerer, a streetwise thief discovers that the relic is actually an ancient, distractingly handsome fae prince who becomes his unlikely partner in an effort to save both of their worlds.
Rags is a two-bit thief-- but an excellent one. When he's caught by royal sorcerer Morien the Last, he's being forced to find an ancient fae relics. But the "relics" Morien are after are actually...
11) Money run
Author
Series
Ashley Arthur books volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of a single night within a single building, this page-turning thriller by the author of "The Lab" is filled with gadgets, guts, and summer-blockbuster action. When a heist goes wrong, teen thief Ash finds herself in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 17
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
A brass-bound trunk mistakenly delivered to Nancy's cabin on a New York-bound ocean liner becomes the first clue leading her to suspect that international jewel thieves are aboard.
13) Officer Pete
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Police Officer Pete has an important job today. The chief asked him to take a letter to the post office. It says TOP SECRET in big black letters. Pete immediately sets off, but then someone steals his cap. zStop, thief!y Officer Pete calls. And he sets off in pursuit with his tracking dog, Sniffer. Will Pete find his police cap? And who's the thief?
14) The stolen show
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 18
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While investigating a case of sabotage at a dog show, Nancy and her friends are drawn into an undercover international operation in pursuit of a jewel smuggler.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 21
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Eugene is sure someone has been stealing all his old toys. Will the trap door he discovered lead him to the answer? -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 4
Language
English
Description
In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Enduring boring days spent inventing traps to keep plunderers at bay, trapsmith Wily Snare is kidnapped by the first thieves to outwit his innovations and is recruited into their band to help loot treasure as part of a rebellion against the Infernal King.
Author
Series
Baker Street Academy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While on a school trip to the British Arts & Antiquities Museum, John Watson and his friends from the Baker Street Academy get involved in a mystery when the Alpine Star, a famous diamond, is stolen.
20) Thieves' gambit
Author
Series
Thieves' gambit volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans. Until her plan to run away from her legendary family of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother's life hanging in the balance. In a desperate bid, she enters the Thieves' Gambit, a series of dangerous, international heists where killing the competition isn't exactly off limits, but the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world--a...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request