Thief!

TitleThief!
Year for Search1995
AuthorsBlackman, [Oneta] Malorie(b. 1962)
Tertiary AuthorsBlackman, Malorie
Date Published1995
PublisherDoubleday
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author
Annotation

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.

Holding Institutions

NZ

Author Note

English female author (b. 1962)  of Barbadian parentage.  She was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2008 and was the Children’s Laureate from 2013-2015.

Full Text

1995 Blackman, [Oneta] Malorie (b. 1962), Thief!. London: Doubleday. NZ

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.