Museum Of Thieves (#1 The Keepers)

Description

Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime.
Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like every child in the city, she wears a silver guardchain and is forced to obey the dreaded Blessed Guardians. She has never done anything by herself and won#146;t be allowed out on the streets unchained until Separation Day.
When Separation Day is canceled, Goldie, who has always been both impatient and bold, runs away, risking not only her own life but also the lives of those she has left behind. In the chaos that follows, she is lured to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets the boy Toadspit and discovers terrible secrets. Only the cunning mind of a thief can understand the museum#146;s strange, shifting rooms. Fortunately, Goldie has a talent for thieving.
Which is just as well, because the leader of the Blessed Guardians has his own plans for the museumplans that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves. And it will take a daring thief to stop him. . . .
Museum of Thieves is a thrilling tale of destiny and danger, and of a courageous girl who has never been allowed to grow upuntil now.


From the Hardcover edition.

Promotion info

'An exciting, genuinely transportive read.' The Age. 'The mystery, the suspense, the action, all in one book - it just makes me want to keep reading and reading! It never gets boring and you just have to know what happens next.' - Willis, 13. 'I loved it because it took me to a world of my own ... .An amazing, captivating novel.' - Ryan, 13. 'The way Lian Tanner uses her imagination is awesome.' - Paige, 13. 'Thrilling' Australian Women's Weekly.

Awards

Winner of Aurealis Award for Excellence in Fiction: Children's Long Fiction 2010. Shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year: Upper Primary Children 2012.

Reviews

'An exciting, genuinely transportive read.' The Age. 'The mystery, the suspense, the action, all in one book - it just makes me want to keep reading and reading! It never gets boring and you just have to know what happens next.' - Willis, 13. 'I loved it because it took me to a world of my own ... .An amazing, captivating novel.' - Ryan, 13. 'The way Lian Tanner uses her imagination is awesome.' - Paige, 13. 'Thrilling' Australian Women's Weekly.

Author description

Lian Tanner is a children's author and playwright. She has worked as a teacher in Australia and Papua New Guinea, a tourist bus driver, a freelance journalist, a juggler, a community arts worker, an editor and a professional actor. It took her a while to realise that all of these jobs were really just preparation for being a writer. Nowadays she lives by the beach in southern Tasmania, with a small tabby cat and lots of friendly neighbourhood dogs. She has not yet mastered the art of Concealment by the Imitation of Nothingness, but she is quite good at Camouflage.