Funke, Cornelia <br/><br/>
The Thief Lord. 

 - New York :  Scholastic,  2001. 
<br/><br/> donated by the PTO   winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award  winner of the 2005 Massachusetts Children's Book Award 
<br/><br/> Prosper and Bo are orphans who decide to hide out from their relatives in Venice.  There they meet a mysterious boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord.".  But the Thief Lord has secrets of his own and soon the boys are thrust into circumstances that will lead them, and the reader, to a fantastic, spellbinding conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-439-40437-1 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fantasy<br/>Young Adult