Anthony's bear learns a hard lesson about leaving other people's possessions alone.

There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times lauds him as "a master of mood and atmosphere," andPublishers Weekly crows that Harrison "writes like an angel." Now, the author of The Havana Room, Afterburn, and Manhattan Nocturne...

The villagers can't put on their legendary Winter Party when they're robbed of their tools, so Beast sets off to find who stole them, then befriends the snow beast criminal who returns the tools and is forgiven by the village.

"Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--

Frank and Joe try to prevent the theft of a valuable collection of diamonds from a show.

When Vidia, a disagreeable fairy, finds herself accused of stealing the Queen's tiara, she enlists the aid of a fellow sprite to help investigate and the two race against time to clear Vidia's name.

A sixth grader's discovery of a bedraggled classroom pet parrot sets him on an adventure with real ethical and legal implications.

Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, and when they all get home to Grammy's bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.

When night falls, a peculiar thief steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.

Ella Mentry School's security guard proves overzealous in his pursuit of a peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich thief.