Museum of Thieves / Lian Tanner / 312 pages

This would be an awesome book to use in a book discussion group of either parents & kids or older elementary through middle school kids. Tanner has created a world where safety is the primary concern and safety of children has the highest priority. Children are chained to Blessed Guardians during the day and parents at night and never allowed to explore, experiment, act independently or grow up. The book raises the question of what happens in a society that is so controlled. The museum featured in the book is the respository of all the bad things from history (war, plague , dogs, etc.) and its rooms keep changing. The keepers of the museum play an important role in saving the city of Jewel from an even more tyrannical fate. The book ends with a cliffhanger and I am looking forward to reading about what happens next. I listened to this title and the recording was excellent; however, I think I would have gotten even more out of the book by reading it first.