Everything you need to understand or teach The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.
The Thief follows the adventures of a myriad-talented young man named Gen who, after announcing that he can purloin anything, accepts a wager and steals the king's seal, which is in the possession of the magus, a powerful advisor to the king of Sounis. Gen brags about what he has achieved and is then caught, tried, and thrown into the king's prison. Although he boasts that the prison can not hold him, weeks...