I agree with Mandy when she was talking about feeling sad for the children and everything they are going through. I have a younger brother and younger nieces and nephews that I could never imagine having to live on their own and not have anyone that loves and cares for them. I also wanted to talk about the Plot-twist that shocked me the most. Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that Scipio was a normal kid living in a palace with his parents. The whole time I figured he had just been on his own for the longest time and so he knew how to survive on his own. Cornelia Funke was smart to put that twist in the Thief Lord. It really changed the direction the book was going and made the reading more interesting. It kept me wondering what was going to happen next with Scipio and if the other children were going to forgive him or forget about him.