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Author
Series
Good crooks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of being pressured to help commit crimes and yearning for a more normal life, twins Jillian and Billy band together to do good deeds while their parents kidnap a monkey from the zoo, hoping to teach it to steal. Includes activities.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
How do you catch a thief who isn't there? Ruby discovers the perils of throwing caution to the wind as she embarks on her fourth adventure.
Ruby Redfort has a lot of reasons to feel confident. Undercover agent, code cracker, thirteen-year-old genius — she's one fearless kid, buster. Unmasking an evil villain? Done. Honing her parkour skills by climbing skyscrapers and leaping across roofs? All in a day's work. Heeding the warning
...6) Firebrand
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anglet Sutonga, a former Steeplejack, must pose as a foreign princess to catch the thief who stole the government's plans for a secret weapon. Yet Ang has other things on her mind as well. Refugees from the north are trickling into the city, but an ambitious politician is proposing extreme measures to get rid of them, and when Ang discovers that one theft could spark a conflagration of conspiracy that will threaten the most vulnerable of Bar-Selehm,...
7) Unstrung
Author
Publisher
Kendra C. Highley
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Lexa Pate, seventeen-year-old thief extraordinaire, has burned a bridge or two in her life. You don't make a career out of stealing other people's property without making enemies. When a risky job goes from bad to worse, Lexa and her adopted family find themselves on Precipice Corporation's hit list because they've accidentally stolen the wrong thing-plans for a new model of genetically-engineered super humans. Now every bounty hunter, cop on the...
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping illustrated adventure about a travelling circus troupe, a future-telling macaw and a cursed pair of gloves that Shoestring must conquer once and for all....Twelve-year-old Shoestring is leaving behind his life of crime and starting a new career with the Troupe of Marvels. Their lead performer, he has an invisible tightrope and an act to die for. But trouble is brewing--the magical gloves that caused so much turmoil for KidGlovz are back....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the smartest crooks in LEGO city plot to rob the museum of its priceless blue diamond, it is up to Detective Chase McCain and his swat team to save the day!
10) Little thieves
Author
Series
Little thieves volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged Library ed.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hrs. 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The school skeleton: At Green Lawn Elementary, the entire school becomes involved in a mystery when Mr. Bones, the skeleton in the nurse's office, disappears.
The talking T. Rex: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.
The unwilling umpire: When the umpire at the baseball game...
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
Author
Series
Stick Cat volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stick Cat and Edith will have to work together to outsmart a burglar in their apartment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The mayor asks Detective Chase McCain to protect an important box on a cargo plane, and it is up to him to save it from the clutches of infamous criminal Rex Fury.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 21
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Convinced that someone is stealing his old toys, Eugene tries to track down the thief.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A thief is stealing priceless diamonds in Gotham City, and the cops are after Catwoman for the crime--but for once she is innocent, and it is up to Batman to find the real culprit.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teen celebrity socialite Margo leads a double life as a cat burglar with a crew of four kickboxing drag queens, but when a big job goes belly-up, each one of them must rely on their special skills to survive the night.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
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