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.
- ISBN: 9780439404372
- Published: 2002 , The Chicken House
- Themes: Mystery and Thriller, Orphans, Runaways, Siblings
- Descriptors: Europe, Fantasy, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mildred L. Batchelder Award
- No. of pages: 352