Maggie and the City of Thieves

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Maggie and the City of Thieves is a historical adventure novel by the German children's and youth author Patrick Hertweck , which was published in July 2015 by Thienemann-Esslinger-Verlag in Stuttgart . Maggie and the City of Thieves is Patrick Hertweck's debut novel and was awarded second place in the “Children's Book” category at the Lovelybooks Readers Award 2015.

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The novel tells the story of the foundling Maggie, who grew up in an orphanage in the North American town of Bath without knowing where she came from. When Maggie was 10 years old, she was kidnapped by strangers one day and taken to New York. Unexpectedly, she escapes her kidnappers and, as she escapes, gets deeper and deeper into the slums of Manhattan. Eventually she finds shelter with the 40 Little Thieves , a gang of beggars and pickpockets. She soon felt at home with the street children. Until a joint thief tour leads her to a church tower that brings back the worst memories in her. Only then does Maggie understand that she has to face her past when she wants to reveal the secret of her life. But only one person can shed light on the darkness: the legendary ruler of the New York underworld.

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  • Patrick Hertweck: Maggie and the city of thieves . Thienemann-Esslinger, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-522-18403-8 (hardcover).
  • Patrick Hertweck (author), Max Meinzold (illustrator): Maggie and the city of thieves (=  Gulliver ). Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-407-74908-6 (paperback).
  • Maggy y la Cuidad de Los Ladrones (Paperback, Spanish)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La suerte de Maggie en la ciudad de los ladrones | SM. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Children's Books - The Readers' Prize Winners 2015. Accessed February 7, 2020 .