Museum of Thieves

Do you get into trouble often? Have you ever heard and listened to that small voice n the back of your head? Would you be able to run away and stay hidden after hearing about the consequences given to the ones you loved? No one can answer these questions better than Goldie in Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner.

Twelve-year-old Golden Roth has been put into the Punishment Chains once again. It wasn't her fault exactly, but now she was in those hated, heavy brass chains on her Separation Day, the day when children are finally allowed to leave their Guardians' Care. Today's Separation Day isn't going at all how Goldie wants, especially when a mysterious accident causes Separation Day to be canceled. Goldie's devastated and can't stand to spend another day with her Guardians, so she steals the ceremonial scissors and cuts her ribbon, escaping through a small door. This upturns chaos, but now Goldie must stay hidden or face unmentionable consequences. Frightened and unprepared, Goldie is somehow pushed towards the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she really begins her adventures. Goldie begins to live inside the Museum's shifting walls and rooms, learning and developing her skills as a thief along with a boy named Toadspit. When the Fugelman and his Guardians threaten to open the dreaded Dirty Gate, releasing war, disease, and other feared things, Goldie and Toadspit must act quickly to save their beloved Dunt from plague. Will they be able to do it in time?

This book is one worth mentioning because it's such a good story, with the perfect combination of suspense, adventure, and the antics of children. Tanner puts such insight and story elements into this book that you'd have to be crazy not to check this book out!

Will Goldie and Toadspit be able to save their city? Is there something suspicious about the Fugelman? Will the Dirty Gate remained closed? Read Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner and you may find out more than you ever dreamed of.