City of thieves and saints5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately the metaphor of “not existing” is woven into the setting of the book. Some middle and high school readers will connect to this feeling of not existing. Tiny’s first rule, if you are going to be a thief, you don’t exist, creates a striking comparison between thieves and refugees-to be successful at either one, you cannot exist. The chapters in three-fourths of the book begin with a succinct rule.However, l ike other young people who come up against the complexity of life, Tina runs out of rules for the traumatic situations she finds herself navigating while discovering difficult truths. The novel is an interesting coming of age story as the children uncover secrets from the past, face choices their parents made, all while trying to establish their own identity. To prove his father’s innocence, Michael embarks on the journey with Tina to find out who murdered her mother. ![]() She is caught by a childhood friend, Michael, the son of the man Tiny thinks killed her mother. As a thief in the Goodnas gang, Christina aka Tiny has an opportunity to search the house where she once lived and where her mother was murdered. Anderson is a lively tale of a spunky girl who trains as a master thief and creates a set of rules to survive as an orphaned refugee after her mother is killed. The City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. ![]()
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