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For further information, see The Keepers Australian website: http://www.keepersbooks.com.au/ and the American website: www.TheKeepersTrilogy.com
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1y
Museum of Thieves
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
,
2010
Z1727356
2010
single work
children's fiction
children's
adventure
fantasy
'Goldie Roth lives in the city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime. But Goldie is both bold and impatient. She runs away to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets a boy named Toadspit and discovers dangerous secrets. A monstrous brizzlehound stalks the museum's corridors, and only a thief can find the way through its strange, shifting rooms. Goldie and Toadspit have a talent for thieving. Which is just as well, because the treacherous Fugleman has his own plans for the museum, plans that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves. And it will take a very bold thief to stop him.' (From the publisher's website.)
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2y
City of Lies
New York (City)
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Delacorte Press
,
2011
Z1790161
2011
single work
children's fiction
children's
adventure
fantasy
'A gripping fantasy adventure: the exciting sequel to Museum of Thieves. Six months have passed since the Great Storm, and Goldie Roth is trapped at home again, this time by the invisible chains of love and guilt. But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is abducted by a mysterious criminal called Harrow, Goldie must leave home in a bold attempt to rescue her friends ...
In the last few months she had had more than a dozen messages from the museum, asking when she was going to take up her position as Fifth Keeper. Tonight she would reply. 'Never.'
Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilful liar. She's supposed to be one of the keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt, along with her friend Toadspit. But although she desperately wants to be a keeper, her parents are ill and she will not leave them. Then Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, and Goldie is forced into action. She and Toadspit follow the child-stealers to the neighbouring city of Spoke. Along the way, Toadspit is also captured, and Goldie discovers some dangerous secrets - secrets that the child-stealers will kill to protect. She will need all her skills as a thief and a liar if she is to survive and save her friends. But survive she must. Because the Fugleman has returned to Jewel, and the Fifth Keeper will soon be needed more than ever ...' (Publisher's blurb)
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3y
Path of the Beasts
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
,
2012
Z1894690
2012
single work
children's fiction
children's
adventure
fantasy
''I'm Fifth Keeper of the Museum of Dunt, and I'm back where I belong.'
When Goldie, Toadspit and Bonnie steal into Jewel in the middle of the night they find their city under the heel of the Fugleman, and the streets controlled by the Blessed Guardians and an army of ruthless mercenaries. The Museum itself is seething with danger, and only the older Keepers prevent it from spilling out into the city. Goldie, Toadspit and Bonnie must use all their clever tricks and hard-won bravery to undermine the Fugleman's brutal regime before he rounds up the children of Jewel and sells them into slavery.
In order to stop the bombardment of the museum, save the children and defeat the Fugleman once and for all, Goldie must walk the Beast Road, an ancient pathway deep inside the museum, a pathway so secret and perilous that no one has ever returned from it. And according to the old stories, she can take only two companions, and they must be mortal enemies ...
The thrilling conclusion to the highly successful Keepers trilogy.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Works about this Work
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 26 no. 5 2011; (p. 39)
— Review of City of Lies 2011 single work children's fiction ; The Keepers 2010 series - author children's fiction
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 26 no. 5 2011; (p. 39)
— Review of City of Lies 2011 single work children's fiction ; The Keepers 2010 series - author children's fiction
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