Funke, Cornelia Caroline. <br/><br/>
The Thief Lord / 
Cornelia Funke.  
 - 1st American ed. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  2002. 
 - 349 p. :  ill., map ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>043942089X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Runaways. Robbers and outlaws. Detectives. Orphans.--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Venice (Italy)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fantasy.