TY - BOOK AU - Wein,Elizabeth TI - The pearl thief T2 - Code Name Verity SN - 9781408866610 U1 - 823.92 23 KW - Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) KW - Teen fiction KW - Prejudices KW - Coming of age KW - Friendship KW - Scotland KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Young adult fiction N1 - Prequel to: Code name Verity N2 - Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember - loved by the family, loathed by the authorities. Tensions are already high when a respected London archivist goes missing, presumed murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on the McEwens but Julie knows not one of them would do such a thing and is determined to prove everyone wrong. And then she notices the family's treasure trove of pearls is missing ER -