JADE about "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke.

10 words from the story that i had to look up meanings for:

1. illuminated = to light up
2. dignified = calm, impressive and worthy of respect
3. stubble =short bristly hair on the chin of a man who has not shaved for a while
4. feebly = lacking in physical or mental strength
5. pestilence = any deadly epidemic disease, such as the plague
6. lynched =to kill a person for some supposed offence without a trial
   
7. inquisitively =excessively curious about other peoples' business
   
8. nonchalantly =casually indifferent or unconcerned
   
9. genuinely =honest and without pretence
   
10. dourly =sullen and unfriendly

A page long summary:

Victor is a detective. He had a meeting with a lady called Esther and her husband Max Hartlieb. They ask him to find their adopted child Boniface [most people call him Bo for short].
Esther thought he and his brother, Prosper might have come to Venice because when their mother was alive she had told them Venice was beautiful.
Meanwhile, prosper and Bo have made friends with a girl called Hornet, and three boys called Riccio, Mosca and Scipio, the thief lord. Bo had actually run away from his Aunt Esther and Uncle Max because they didn't adopt Prosper, as well Bo doesn't like to be separated from his brother.
Together the six children live in an old disused cinema that belongs to Scipio's father. Scipio doesn't usually live in the cinema, he goes there when he has stolen something or when he can .
Scipio is called 'the thief lord' because he never gets caught.
What they do with the stolen objects is take them to a man called Barbarossa, who pays for them.
One day while the children were out, they met Victor. well bo met victor. he even talked to Victor but he had no idea he was actually a detective.
When Scipio gets a job from a Conte, he is thrilled..he has to steal something that is neither gold nor silver but wood. The children can't figure out why something wooden would be so valuable, seeing he offered then five million lire for it.
When the children find out that Scipio isn't actually a street kid, they get mad at him for lying. They find he even has a nanny, and he was just stealing things from the unused things in his house.
When they arrive at the house to steal the object, they meet the lady who owns the mysterious object. her name is Ida spavento. While they were trying to find it, she heard them whispering and caught them all. They were all very scared but Ida was a nice person. They explained about the conte and she told them a story about the object [which is a wing] while playing by the dovecots while she was young. When they give the wing to the conte in the night they get cheated and get given the money.
After that, Proper and Scipio go back to the island, and Scipio and Barbarossa go on the magic roundabout that Ida mentioned in her story to them. Barbarossa breaks it.

By Jade.