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Fourteen year old Nick is in trouble. He's on the run from drug dealers with a pack full of stolen meth, and those drug dealers have caught up. He's pretty sure he's going to die. Until Peter shows up. Peter saves his life and promises to take him away to a magical land full of adventure. And Nick follows, through a haunted mist to a strange, magical, dying land full of Devil children, monsters, magic and danger. There he learns he's not been saved so much as recruited, to fight with Peter and his pack of wild, lost children against the Flesh Eaters who are destroying the land of Avalon. As he and the other New Blood find their place in the group, discovering more of the nature of Avalon and of the threat against it, Peter's past is revealed to the reader.

It's basically a [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]] take on the story of ''Literature/PeterPan'', although there's no mention of any of the other characters in the original book by James Barrie.
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!!''The Child Thief'' provides examples of:

* ActionGirl - Sekeu most especially
* AffablyEvil - The Captain
* AxCrazy - [[spoiler: Ulfger and Leroy, eventually]]
* BadassBoast - The Devils and especially Peter are fond of this
* BittersweetEnding - A toss-up between this and DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Avalon and the Lady are saved... but almost every single other named character is dead]]
* BloodKnight - All the Devils show shades of this
* DarkAndTroubledPast - Peter, and all the Devils... which is why they became Devils in the first place, as Peter purposefully searches out the most poorly treated and lonely children for his army.
* DownerEnding - Either this or a BittersweetEnding, depending on how you look at it
* [[spoiler: EverybodysDeadDave - Except for Peter and Cricket, and the Captain and Danny. That's right, [[DownerEnding even the main character dies]]]]
* HopeSpot - [[spoiler: They won the battle! They rescued the Lady and she healed Sekeu's wounds! The elves will fight with them! Everything is going peachy! And then Ulfger picks up his father's sword and helmet...]]
* ParentalAbandonment - Part of Peter's backstory
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - All of the original inhabitants of Avalon, and Peter. Some of the Devils, namely Sekeu, might also fit this trope.
* SelfMadeOrphan - [[spoiler: Leroy went with Peter because he'd killed his father... over a beer]]
* WellDoneSonGuy - Ulfger
* WhatTheHellHero - Nick delivers a couple speeches of this sort to Peter.

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