Shadow Thieves Series

by Peter Burns

(38 reviews)

For readers aged 11+, Shadow Thieves is the fantasy adventure that everyone's been loving to review here at Toppsta!

Set in a dystopian reality that draws on Victorian Empire aesthetics, 13-year-old Tom Morgan is invited to train in a remote boarding school for spies, after years of picking pockets on the streets of an alternate London. So he is joins the Shadow League.

Heart-pounding adventure, thrilling heists, remote boarding schools full of ancient secrets are all a big part of this series, but our readers especially loved the characters and the friendships, the tension and intrigue throughout that make this book so unputdownable.

If you're after a book where the hero is a professional crook on a mission to save his friends, look no further. If you read this book and would like to read a similar series, you'll definitely love Percy Jackson and The Olympians or Crookhaven.

And don't miss our blog post on the Best Magical and Fantasy Book Series for 11 and 12 year olds!

All the Shadow Thieves books in order:

Book 1: Shadow Thieves (2025)
Book 2: Shadow Thieves: Island of Skulls (2026)

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** OVERALL WINNER OF THE BARNES & NOBLE CHILDREN’S AND YA BOOK PRIZE 2026 (published in the US as SCHOOL ... MoreShadow Thieves

(23 reviews) 5 23

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Shadow Thieves: Island of Skulls

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Shadow Thieves: Island of Skulls

** SHADOW THIEVES (published as SCHOOL FOR THIEVES in the US) is the OVERALL WINNER of the Barnes & Noble Children’s and... MoreShadow Thieves: Island of Skulls

(15 reviews) 5 15

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Shadow Thieves: Island of Skulls

4th June 2026

(15 reviews) 5 15

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Shadow Thieves: Island of Skulls

by Freyadrage

[b]I didn’t like the book because I found the plot unclear.It was unclear because it didn’t introduce the characters at all and it didn’t help that I ...
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by EH

I enjoyed this book because it was exciting and full of unexpected twists. The island setting creates a tense atmosphere, and Tom is a likeable charac...
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by misswynnreads__

This is the second book in the Shadow Thieves series, which I absolutely loved! In fact, I think this book may have been even better than the first bo...

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