01791cam a2200325 i 4500 549909548 TxAuBib 20220303120000.0 201210s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020951910 9780735269439 0735269432 TxAuBib rda Hahn, Dee. The grave thief / Dee Hahn. Plattsburgh : Puffin Canada, 2022. 334 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief. With his father and brother, he digs up the recently deceased to steal jewels, the main form of trade in Wyndhail. Digging graves works for Spade -- alone in the graveyard at night, no one notices his limp or calls him names. He's headed for a lifetime of theft when his father comes up with the audacious plan to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery. Spade and his brother get caught in a royal trap, and Spade must find the master of the Woegon: a deadly creature that is stalking the castle by night. Along the way, he meets Ember, the queen's niece, and together they race to solve the mystery of the legendary Deepstones and their connection to the Woegon, the queen, a missing king and the mysterious pebble Spade finds in the Wyndhail cemetery. This is a fantastic story of friendship, bravery, grief and acceptance. Ages 9-12 Puffin Canada. Grades 4-6 Puffin Canada. 20220303. Grave robbing Juvenile fiction. Fantasy Juvenile fiction. Mystery Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. T3L