There are mobile phones (though they aren’t very reliable) and answering machines. What I forgot from my previous read is that this is set in a contemporary Venice. If this story was set anywhere else it may not have worked as well as it did now. I finally visited the place with my fiancé during last year’s carnival, and reading this book made me long to go back there. After reading this book for the first time, I got a weak for the place. This story does a great job of promoting the city, with its colourful descriptions and wonderful drawings inside. It tells the story of a group of orphans who pick pockets in the streets of Venice to survive. This book was just as wonderful as I remembered it to be. That must be a good sign right? Yet I was slightly hesitant to pick it up again, afraid to be disappointed. This is a middle-grade story I read years (15 or so) ago, but always stuck with me. Something from a forgotton past that poses a threat to the boys’ freedom: a treasure so enchanted, it can spin time… The leader of this motley crew of lost children is a clever, charming boy who calls himself the Thief Lord. Two orphaned brothers have run away to Venice, where crumbling canals and misty alleyways shelter a secret community of street urchins.
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