- Fiction, Robbers and outlaws, Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile Fiction
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Megan Whalen Turner
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, CollinsVoyager, Greenwillow Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780788713460
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First sentence
“I DIDN'T KNOW HOW LONG I had been in the king's prison.”
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