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1) Loosies
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A pickpocket is on the run from the police when he finds out he is to become a father, which forces him to reevaluate his life and take responsibility for his actions.
2) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
As a young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But, Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and that true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Author
Publisher
:01, First second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Alibi
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When pickpockets cause trouble at her aunt's antique store, fifteen-year-old Christine attempts to uncover the thief and meets a mysterious young man.
8) Firestorm!
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
9) Benno's bear
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Whodunit Detective Agency volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
There is a thief on the loose stealing wallets! Everyone is falling victim to this master pickpocket -- even ace reporter Tintin's wallet has been stolen. It is a good thing Thomson and Thompson are on the case...or is it?
12) Four dead queens
Author
Publisher
Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Keralie is the best pickpocket in all of the kingdoms of Quadara, but when she steals a "comm disk" and realizes a royal murder plot is afoot, she must learn who to trust and fast.
Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she's, in fact, one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals...
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