Continue your quarantine reading adventures with a magical trip to Venice! The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke offers up plenty of capers, endless ice creams and a surprisingly complex look at class issues. Follow a group of runaway kids living in an abandoned theater as they outsmart and ultimately befriend a quirky detective - and seek out a mysterious stolen carousel with long-rumored magical powers. Just look at that last sentence - how can you resist?? We certainly can’t.

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