I stayed up at 11 pm reading it, although that is partly due because we got home from a wedding shower at 10:30 and I couldn't read in the car because it was dark. So, on to it.
"The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
Prosper and Bo, two Italian boys, have just been adopted by their aunt Esther after their parents died. Well, Bo has, but since Prosper's twelve and isn't cute and golden haired, he's sent off to boarding school and only allowed to see his younger brother once a month. Not very happy with that, Prosper runs away, taking Bo with him. In the streets of Venice, they are taken in by a group of children, whose leader is called Scipio, or the Thief Lord. The children make a living off of stealing, and then trading it off to a red-bearded man named Barbarossa. But when the gang (or Scipio, to be more precise) is given an assignment by a mysterious Conte to find an ordinary, wooden, wing by breaking into someone's house, the children learn that there's more to Scipio than they thought. And he's hidden several important facts from them.
It wasn't the best book I read, and it wasn't the best book the author has written, but it was okay. The children, Mosca, Riccio, Hornet (a girl), Prosper, and Bo are very loyal to each other, and Prosper and Hornet protect Bo from most of the stealing. They are also horrified when Scipio tells them that he got an old Nanny in trouble when he stole some jewels, and they encourage him to write to his parents and tell them what's going on when he turns up missing. The bad things are that even though some of the children don't like to steal and feel that it's sort of wrong, they do it anyway. Scipio is willing to abandon his parents (this may be excusable because his parents really are not very good, but still...), and the ending wasn't particularly good. Also there's a slight case of taking the Lord's name in vain. Overall, it was...okay. I liked "Inkheart" better.
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