Lee Raven, Boy Thief. Zizou Corder

by Zizou Corder

Lee Raven, boy thief, has stolen something he really didn't mean to.

Now he faces a perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to escape capture - because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has existed for thousands of years and tells every story and legend known to man. It's priceless. Some will even kill to possess it. The pressure mounts and the future of Nebo is in Lee's hands - can he prevent the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014132290X
• ISBN13: 9780141322902
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Surprising and addicting

I found this book in a English book store in Vienna while I was visiting with my friend Sylvia. I picked it up because of the summary. Seriously? A book that has every single book known to God or man? I can understand the want for it, the need to kill for it, and so on. The book was fantastic, written by a mother/daughter team. It is filled with random bits of British slang and I was grateful for context clues because... I'm American and our slang does not compute sometimes. The story itself is written almost journal style but written from several different people's perspectives. Normally this is something I find very annoying but this book manages to make it interesting and the changes actually move the story along in a way that's interesting and exciting. While our protagonist, Lee Raven, can't read, books are still important to him. They become even more so when he discovers what he's got in his hot little hands. The book is absolutely worth reading and I'm so glad I randomly picked it up. I also have to say I find the combination of a mother and daughter reading together just wonderfully happy making.