Angel Thieves (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442421097)

An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief.

Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith in a most unusual and epic novel from Newbery Honor-winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt.

Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother's family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. The only payment the owner Mrs. Walker requests: marble angels, stolen from graveyards, for her to sell for thousands of dollars to collectors. But there's one angel that would be the last they'd ever need to steal; an angel, carved by a slave, with one hand open and one hand closed. If only Cade could find it...

Zorra, a young ocelot, watches the bayou rush past her yearningly. The poacher who captured and caged her has long since lost her, and Zorra is getting hungrier and thirstier by the day. Trapped, she only has the sounds of the bayou for comfort--but it tells her help will come soon.

Before Zorra, Achsah, a slave, watched the very same bayou with her two young daughters. After the death of her master, Achsah is free, but she'll be damned if her daughters aren't freed with her. All they need to do is find the church with an angel with one hand open and one hand closed...

In a masterful feat, National Book Award Honoree Kathi Appelt weaves together stories across time, connected by the bayou, an angel, and the universal desire to be free.

Author: Kathi Appelt
ISBN-10: 1442421096
ISBN-13: 9781442421097
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 513499 / Angel Thieves


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2019 pg. 48
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2019
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2019
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2019 pg. 136
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 102
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average