

"These are the titles that reignited our love for literature." Starred reviews for Return of the Thief: The Horn Book, School Library Journal,Īnd The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Booksįrom The Atlantic Culture Desk. The Thief has been recorded as an audiobook with a variety of narrators.LA Times Book Award for Young Adult Literature.

Pol and Ambiades are both killed, and Gen is gravely wounded. After several close encounters, the group is finally captured by the Attolians. The group is ambushed by Attolian soldiers, who had been made aware of their mission and location by Ambiades, who was an informant to the Attolian queen. Outside the temple, Gen temporarily surrenders the Gift to the magus, only to surreptitiously steal it back shortly after. In the hidden room, the Old Gods appear before Gen, and he takes the Gift from the Great Goddess Hephestia. Gen spends three nights searching the temple, and eventually realizes that there is a hidden room behind a wall of Hephestial glass. He believes that the Gift is hidden in a secret, nearly inaccessible temple hidden by the Aracthus river. The magus eventually reveal that he is searching for Hamiathes's Gift, which he hopes to use to convince the queen of Eddis to marry the king of Sounis. The group travels east into Eddis and then Attolia. They are joined by the magus’s two apprentices, Sophos and Ambiades, and by a soldier named Pol.


Without telling Gen where they are going, he takes him out of the city. The magus finds Gen filthy, uncouth, and insolent, but he needs Gen’s skills as a thief for a secret mission. A young thief named Eugenides is released from prison by the magus of Sounis, a scholar and one of the king's top advisors.
