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She Thief (2010)

by Daniel Finn(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312563302 (ISBN13: 9780312563301)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Feiwel & Friends

review 1: This book was intense!!! Baz and her friend Demi have spent pretty much there entire lives growing up together, with being theft as their only option of survival. With no parents to care for them, they both wound very different when being under a care of a young, hardened woman named Fay. Fay has given Baz, Demi, and a few other child thieves with what passes for shelter, and food. Fay could be cruel, but these children had no one else and they called their so they called that place their home. Their lives in the Barrio changed tremendously when Demi and Baz decided to steal a precious blue ring from a woman who they discovered was the wife of the police chief. Then, all of a sudden, Fay and her gang of thieves had gotten unwanted attention of not only the police, but also... more the Barrio's crime lord and a rich young man who had a odd connection to Fay. I thought that the plot quickly draws in the readers of this book with intriguing new characters and events. Compassion and corruption are an important set of themes related to poverty and and they need to live by steeling. This book made my heart pound in excitement, and surely will make readers think about what it takes for children to survive in and escape from the disaster places they must live in. I would definatly recomend this book to anyone that likes a book about a harsh living life.
review 2: 3.5 stars. Terrible title, misleading cover (both protagonists are dark-skinned), but overall a pretty decent gritty adventure/grist novel. Set in a Latin American city, it follows Baz and Demi, teen thieves who have been "adopted" by Fay, a Fagin-like collector of orphaned children who she turns into pickpockets. When Fay is reunited with her birth son, she asks Baz and Demi to do one more big job for her--but it's unclear who's playing whom. less

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