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Pickpockets

  • The faerie ring
    Author:
    Hamilton, Kiki
    Summary:

    The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. They survive by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring,...
  • The elephant thief
    Author:
    Kerr, Jane
    Summary:

    Based on real events, this is a miraculous story of a boy who befriends a famous elephant during a race against time and villains! When young pickpocket Danny accidentally buys an elephant at an auction, he finds himself swept up on an...
  • Pickpocket
    Author:
    Spafford-Fitz, Karen
    Summary:

    After his younger sister dies, 17-year-old Jean-Luc goes into a downward spiral. He is sent away for the summer to live with his uncle in a small town on the coast of France. His first day there he meets the beautiful Selina and decides...
  • Fingersmith
    Author:
    Waters, Sarah
    Summary:

    Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs. Sucksby, "mother" to a host of pickpockets and con artists. To pay her debt, she joins legendary thief Gentleman in swindling an innocent woman out of her inheritence.
  • Alibi
    Author:
    Butcher, Kristin
    Summary:

    Fifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town’s ghost walk, which gives Christine the...
  • A darker shade of magic : Shades of magic, book 1
    Author:
    Schwab, Victoria
    Summary:

    Kell is one of the last Travelers-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes-as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George....
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