# The Thief

**Author:** Megan Whalen Turner
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**First published:** 2022
**Page count:** 239
**ISBN-13:** `9781529387605`
**ISBN-10:** `1529387604`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-thief
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

I can steal anything. ''Vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy that will leave you desperate to return to Attolia again and again' Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows 'Romance, intrigue, mystery, surprises, and sheer beautiful writing' Cassandra Clare, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments and Lady Midnight Eugenides, can steal anything - or so he says. Then his boasting lands him in the king's prison, and his chances of escape look slim. So when the king's magus invites him on a seemingly impossible quest to steal a legendary object and win back his freedom, Gen in no position to refuse. The magus has plans for his king and his country. But Gen has plans of his own . . . AUTHORS LOVE THE THIEF 'The Thief books awe an

## Where this book is assigned

### Massachusetts Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Massachusetts — [source: Massachusetts Children's Book Award winners (Salem State University), via Goodreads award record — 2006](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/4054-massachusetts-children-s-book-award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Massachusetts — [source: Massachusetts Children's Book Award winners (Salem State University), via Goodreads award record — 2006](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/4054-massachusetts-children-s-book-award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Massachusetts — [source: Massachusetts Children's Book Award winners (Salem State University), via Goodreads award record — 2006](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/4054-massachusetts-children-s-book-award)

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