Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime.
Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like ev... read full description
Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like ev... read full description
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Aug 31, 2011
Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress"
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The fact that it took so long for me to finish listening to is in no way a reflection on the overall quality of this book. I had some issues with my CD player in my car, which is how I listen to audiobooks, and I started The Left Hand of God and wanted to finish that up first.
This is a book that I would say I liked, but did not love. The ideas in it were quite interesting. I love the concept of a place that is more than it seems, much like the TARDIS for Doctor Who fans. The Muse More...
This is a book that I would say I liked, but did not love. The ideas in it were quite interesting. I love the concept of a place that is more than it seems, much like the TARDIS for Doctor Who fans. The Muse More...
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Feb 17, 2012
Teegan
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“You’re in the museum now and anything can happen!”
This book is the first book in The Keepers Trilogy it is the exciting tale of a girl named Goldie Roth. She lives in a city called Jewel where boldness is a crime and for a bold girl like Goldie life is horrible. All the children in the city of Jewel are constantly chained to their parents or a blessed guardian. Goldie’s separation day gets interrupted by a bombing at the Fugleman’s office. So Goldie decides to cut the silk rope that More...
This book is the first book in The Keepers Trilogy it is the exciting tale of a girl named Goldie Roth. She lives in a city called Jewel where boldness is a crime and for a bold girl like Goldie life is horrible. All the children in the city of Jewel are constantly chained to their parents or a blessed guardian. Goldie’s separation day gets interrupted by a bombing at the Fugleman’s office. So Goldie decides to cut the silk rope that More...
Feb 13, 2012
Barb
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All children in the city of Jewel are chained to a Blessed Guardian until their Separation Ceremony. This is for their own good and protection. On her way to the Separation Ceremony, 12-year-old Goldie, is in trouble again and is wearing the heavier, more cumbersome chains of punishment around her wrists for not obeying the Blessed Guardians. Goldie longs to be free and cannot wait for her chains to be cut, but while the ceremony is in process the man in charge of the Blessed Guardians, Fugelma
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Jan 26, 2012
Chris
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The smallpox virus. It used to cause great harm and kill many people. Now it's been wiped out and will never hurt anyone again. Unless . . . one of the few samples preserved for scientific purposes ever gets out to spread through a world unprepared to handle it.
Now: imagine that scenario taken to its extreme, applied to all dangers, with the representative samples hidden away in a museum no one knows of.
The city of Jewel is the safest city in the world. All dangers, b More...
Now: imagine that scenario taken to its extreme, applied to all dangers, with the representative samples hidden away in a museum no one knows of.
The city of Jewel is the safest city in the world. All dangers, b More...
Jan 16, 2012
lia
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I usually love children's book. But i'm really not sure with this one.
I never fully engaged with the book from the 1st page, and up until the last page i don't feel that i enjoyed this book much.
This is the story of Goldie Roth and the city of Jewel. In hundred years ago, Jewel was a city of disasters. War, plague, slave trade and children deaths are running rampant in the city. The children deaths are the most devastating blow of all. That is way when there are 7 brave peopl More...
I never fully engaged with the book from the 1st page, and up until the last page i don't feel that i enjoyed this book much.
This is the story of Goldie Roth and the city of Jewel. In hundred years ago, Jewel was a city of disasters. War, plague, slave trade and children deaths are running rampant in the city. The children deaths are the most devastating blow of all. That is way when there are 7 brave peopl More...
Jan 11, 2012
Museum Of Thieves
By Lian Tanner
Critique by Failenn Aselta
This book was about a trying to be utopian city called Jewel. The people of he city would put chains on the children until separation date when kids could take their chains off. Any one who did something wrong were put into the House of Representatives. The museum of dun was were all the animals were placed so no animals lived inside the city. Goldie a twelve-year-old child escapes the City and finds refuse in the museum More...
By Lian Tanner
Critique by Failenn Aselta
This book was about a trying to be utopian city called Jewel. The people of he city would put chains on the children until separation date when kids could take their chains off. Any one who did something wrong were put into the House of Representatives. The museum of dun was were all the animals were placed so no animals lived inside the city. Goldie a twelve-year-old child escapes the City and finds refuse in the museum More...
Oct 12, 2011
Nicole
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I really enjoyed this juvenile fiction book of fantasy! There were several passages I marked to remember that I just loved the wording of:
"With each movement, with each sound, her skin prickeled.
But at the same time the blood surged through her veins and she had never felt so alive. I've been asleep! she thought. I've been asleep all my life, and now I'm waking up!" p. 80
"But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must ste More...
"With each movement, with each sound, her skin prickeled.
But at the same time the blood surged through her veins and she had never felt so alive. I've been asleep! she thought. I've been asleep all my life, and now I'm waking up!" p. 80
"But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must ste More...
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Jul 03, 2011
Jan
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I suppose every parent has sometimes wished they could wrap their little ones in bubble wrap so they will never get hurt, physically or emotionally. But what kind of people would we be if we had never been allowed to stand on our own? Slender trees, dense in a forest, develop shallow roots, and can easily be blown over in a high wind. But the oak standing alone in a meadow, bearing rain and winds year after year, develops deep roots and stands strong.
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Jun 26, 2011
Lauren
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SOOOOO GOOD! I know I could probably come up with a more savvy "hook" than that, but....THIS BOOK IS SOOOOO GOOD! Lian Tanner's Museum of Thieves blew me away. It is scary and dark and thrilling and inspiring and clever. But beyond being thoroughly entertaining, Museum of Thieves raises some very thought-provoking questions. It never ceases to amaze me how authors create elaborate fantasy worlds that on the surface seem to have nothing in common with ours, but soon are revealed to exam
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Jun 24, 2011
Cass -
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4/5
I received a copy from the publisher (AU PB) for an honest review.
This review will be posted on the blog, mid July.
Watch the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO610cWzU...)!
The presentation of this book is top-notch. In the version I have (http://liantanner.com.au/media/2011/06/9...) the children on the cover look a BIT younger than I'd imagine twelve year olds to be, but the background and word placement - well, I couldn't have dreamed up anything be More...
I received a copy from the publisher (AU PB) for an honest review.
This review will be posted on the blog, mid July.
Watch the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO610cWzU...)!
The presentation of this book is top-notch. In the version I have (http://liantanner.com.au/media/2011/06/9...) the children on the cover look a BIT younger than I'd imagine twelve year olds to be, but the background and word placement - well, I couldn't have dreamed up anything be More...
May 19, 2011
M.
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A very interesting story on a couple of levels. I'm sure there will be sequels.
The practice in the town of Jewel is to attach a thin silver guardchain stretching from the wrist of each child to the wrist of his/her parent. This is supposed to keep the child safe from all harm. Each year there is a Separation Day when the children deemed old enough to be safe on their own have their chains severed.
And then an emergency comes up on Separation Day and Separation Day is c More...
The practice in the town of Jewel is to attach a thin silver guardchain stretching from the wrist of each child to the wrist of his/her parent. This is supposed to keep the child safe from all harm. Each year there is a Separation Day when the children deemed old enough to be safe on their own have their chains severed.
And then an emergency comes up on Separation Day and Separation Day is c More...
Apr 30, 2011
Pamela
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This exciting adventure/fantasy takes to heart one of Diana Wynne Jones' rules about what makes a great fantasy story. Jones said the best choice an author can make is to imagine a world similar to our own, and then change one thing. What happens to that world if just one thing is different?
In our world parents have gone overboard about their children's safety, using antibacterial gel and wipes unnecessarily, and castigating a New York city mom for allowing her capable child to ride th More...
In our world parents have gone overboard about their children's safety, using antibacterial gel and wipes unnecessarily, and castigating a New York city mom for allowing her capable child to ride th More...
Dec 13, 2010
Susanti
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museum of thieves
penulis: lian tanner
tebal: 256 halaman
published September 28th 2010 by delacorte books for young readers
hidup di dalam berlian (jewel) tentu bukan hal yang menyenangkan. Demikian pula yag dialami oleh seorang gadis kecil bernama Goldie roth. kaki tangannya dirantai dan harus mematuhi peraturan dari guardian. ia baru bebas setelah berusia 17 tahun.
Seperti umumnya gadis kecil pemberani dan (cenderung) pemberontak, goldie roth selalu memi More...
penulis: lian tanner
tebal: 256 halaman
published September 28th 2010 by delacorte books for young readers
hidup di dalam berlian (jewel) tentu bukan hal yang menyenangkan. Demikian pula yag dialami oleh seorang gadis kecil bernama Goldie roth. kaki tangannya dirantai dan harus mematuhi peraturan dari guardian. ia baru bebas setelah berusia 17 tahun.
Seperti umumnya gadis kecil pemberani dan (cenderung) pemberontak, goldie roth selalu memi More...
Dec 12, 2010
See full review here.
Opening The Keepers is like taking the first step on an amazing adventure into a fantasy world. Magic springs off the very first page, as the reader is drawn into an enchanting universe where children are chained to Guardians, museums come alive, characters communicate with fingertalk, and people become nothingness.
Lian Tanner weaves the city of Jewel with a pen dipped in magic, and interlaced threads of originality and imagination. Her writing takes afte More...
Opening The Keepers is like taking the first step on an amazing adventure into a fantasy world. Magic springs off the very first page, as the reader is drawn into an enchanting universe where children are chained to Guardians, museums come alive, characters communicate with fingertalk, and people become nothingness.
Lian Tanner weaves the city of Jewel with a pen dipped in magic, and interlaced threads of originality and imagination. Her writing takes afte More...
Nov 14, 2010
Samantha-Ellen
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First of all, I absolutely love that the story is centered around a museum. The Museum of Dunt has layers and layers to it, is stuffed with thousands of lost and forgotten things, has a will of its own and is dominated by an eerie, menacing presence. Tanner uses it to create a great sense of adventure and discovery. Goldie and Toadspit are proactive, clever protagonists and once the action picks up about halfway through, the story rollicks along at a nice pace.
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Nov 08, 2010
BookKids
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Goldie Ruth lives in Jewel, a place where fear has become so rampant that helicopter parenting is institutionalized. In this world people so fear that children will run off, get lost, be kidnapped, or some other dire disaster that the children are literally chained to an adult or to a surface at all times. When the book begins, Goldie has just reached the age where she will no longer have to wear a silver handcuff, a day that impatient Goldie has been awaiting her whole life. But just as her
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Oct 31, 2010
Goldie Roth lives in the city of Jewel. This is a city where the children are constantly chained to someone or something. The reason is to keep them safe. In years past children have been stolen and taken as slaves or drowned in the river. They must wear a silver guard chain that during the day is attached to a guardian. When at home they are attached to their parent by the same silver chain. Some parents even chain their child to the bed at night so they don’t accidentally wander off. Ho
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Sep 22, 2010
Lydia
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Hurray for fantastic, middle-grade level adventures! I think the last book I read that I enjoyed this much was Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. Lian Tanner has created a fantastic world in Museum of Thieves and provided middle-schoolers with a strong, female lead character (and a strong, male secondary character), no romance (none needed!), a mysterious building and a world that could be so real it's frightening!
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Have you ever seen parents walking about with their children More...
Apr 06, 2011
Doret
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Goldie lives in the city of Jewel. The city has lived through disastrous times and now the people live in fear of everything. For their protection kids are raised and chained to a Blessed Guardian until they are 12 yrs old.
When the book opens 12 yr old Goldie is being punished on Separation Day. Goldie has spent much of her time with The Blessed Guardians in trouble, the last day is no different. Many of the kids are excited about separation day but they worry about everything from c More...
When the book opens 12 yr old Goldie is being punished on Separation Day. Goldie has spent much of her time with The Blessed Guardians in trouble, the last day is no different. Many of the kids are excited about separation day but they worry about everything from c More...
Mar 27, 2011
Victoria
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12 year old Golden Roth is so excited for her Separation Day that she can't contain herself, and she ends up goign to the ceremony wearing the punishment chains. In the city of Jewel, children are protected by their parents and by the Blessed Guardians. They are constantly chained to an adult (or their beds while they sleep) so that they don't get hurt, get sick, get lost or any other mishaps. Goldie is so eager for her freedom, that she ends up running away and she is given refuge at the Mu
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Feb 20, 2011
Erin
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In a world where children are literally kept chained to their parents or "Blessed Guardians" until the age of 12 to keep them safe, Goldie is a defiant girl who cannot wait for the Separation Ceremony. But on the day of the Separation Ceremony, something terrible happens--a child dies from an explosion--and the city leaders decide to hold off the Separation Ceremony until further notice. But Goldie can wait no further, grabs a pair of scissors, and runs away. She finds a dusty, dingy,
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Apr 18, 2011
Brandy
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Review originally posted here.
This is a quick read and a real page turner. It has one of those stories that sucks you in and doesn't want to let you out until the end. The plot is fast paced and the setting of the museum vividly described so that it comes to life. Goldie is a character with both strengths and weaknesses. It is easy to root for her and want her to succeed. Toadspit is equally endearing, as are the adult heroes of the story. The villain is easy to hate. So easy More...
This is a quick read and a real page turner. It has one of those stories that sucks you in and doesn't want to let you out until the end. The plot is fast paced and the setting of the museum vividly described so that it comes to life. Goldie is a character with both strengths and weaknesses. It is easy to root for her and want her to succeed. Toadspit is equally endearing, as are the adult heroes of the story. The villain is easy to hate. So easy More...
Jan 12, 2011
Leslie
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I'm not sure helicopter parents would let their children read this one, so I recommend helping the poor kids out and sneak them a copy! A wonderful read for children and adults alike! I think Francis Hardinge and/or Adrienne Kress fans would like Ms. Tanner.
"Olga and Sinew and others would recognize and foster Goldie’s potential, her unique abilities, and offer lessons in a few more useful skills. “When hard times come—as they always do in the end—[Goldie is] resourceful and brav More...
"Olga and Sinew and others would recognize and foster Goldie’s potential, her unique abilities, and offer lessons in a few more useful skills. “When hard times come—as they always do in the end—[Goldie is] resourceful and brav More...
Aug 30, 2010
Angela
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One of my Kid Critics raved about this one, so I decided to give it a go. First, here's what she had to say:
Title and Author: The Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner
The Museum of Thieves is #10 now on my Top 20 books I love! This book is pretty long, but I can understand why. The plot is intriguing and it always makes me want to know what happens next. I couldn’t put this book down after the first 5 pages!
Name: Hope Age: 10
I ask her what her other Top 10 bo More...
Title and Author: The Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner
The Museum of Thieves is #10 now on my Top 20 books I love! This book is pretty long, but I can understand why. The plot is intriguing and it always makes me want to know what happens next. I couldn’t put this book down after the first 5 pages!
Name: Hope Age: 10
I ask her what her other Top 10 bo More...
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Feb 09, 2011
Emi
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For the full review, please visit my blog: http://oktopusink.blogspot.com/2011/02/m... :)
For the first 50 pages or so I was scratching my head, trying to figure out which genre this book belonged to. Was it fantasy? Sci-fi? Steampunk? Dystopian? Well, the answered turned out to be none of the above…and at the same time, all of the above. Museum of Thieves was one of those rare books that spice up the genre by creating its own—and by doing it well. Tanner does a nice job constructing More...
For the first 50 pages or so I was scratching my head, trying to figure out which genre this book belonged to. Was it fantasy? Sci-fi? Steampunk? Dystopian? Well, the answered turned out to be none of the above…and at the same time, all of the above. Museum of Thieves was one of those rare books that spice up the genre by creating its own—and by doing it well. Tanner does a nice job constructing More...
Dec 07, 2010
Stories & Sweeties {Becky}
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The Museum of Thieves is set in the dystopian city of Jewel where everyone is so overprotective and fearful that they chain their children in "guardchains" to protect them from being hurt or running off by themselves. These chains are held during the day by the Blessed Guardians, who seem to have become a little power-hungry from having so much control over the children. The poor children are even chained during the night to their beds! The society has been convinced that this is the b
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Dec 02, 2010
Sean
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Goldie lives in the city of Jewel, a place where children wear guardchains at all times that keep them connected to their parents or the Blessed Guardians. On the day she is about to receive her freedom a bomb goes off, causing chaos. Goldie runs away and finds herself in The Museum of Dunt, a place of ever changing rooms and mysteries to last a lifetime. There she meets unforgetable characters, like Toadspit (another runaway), Olga Ciavolga (a wise old woman), and the thought long gone Brizzle
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Nov 02, 2010
Sweet on Books
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Goldie Roth is longing for freedom. She has spent her whole life in chains and can’t stand it any longer. That’s the way life is in the City of Jewel. All children spend their days and nights chained to either their parents or the Blessed Guardians. The Guardians are civil servants, led by the Fugleman. They are supposedly trained to ensure the safety of the children but they abuse their powers and seem to do more harm than good. The Protector of the City of Jewel has shifted the Separation Day
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Jul 13, 2011
Jaimey
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'The Keepers Museum of Theives' is another children's book I found myself reading while visiting my parents for a few days, recommended as a great book by my younger siblings when I found myself with nothing to read. I would have to say this is a brilliant book. The world the author has created is completely different from ours, and it takes a while to adjust to the names of certain things and places. The strongest theme from the beginning of the story is obvious due to the feel of extremely str
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Jan 29, 2011
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