The Patron Thief of Bread

A beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic-and gargoyles!-from the acclaimed author of Hour of the Bees and Race to the Bottom of the Sea.

Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run-until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots...