The Thief Lord text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

Right now I'm reading the book The Thief Lord.  This book is about A boy named Prosper who runs away with his little brother, Bo, to Venice to get away from their aunt and uncle.  Prosper and Bo's parents died so their aunt and uncle adopted them.  But Their Aunt Esther plans on giving Prosper up for adoption and keeping Bo.  The boys don't want to be separated from eachother so the run away to Venice.  When they run away, Prosper has to take the role as a father and take care of Bo.  I can relate a lot to prosper because I have two little sisters and a lot of times I have to take care of them.  

The Thief Lord reminds me a lot of another book I read called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.  This book is from the point of view of the second oldest child, Jeannette Walls.  This true story is about a poor family where the father is an alchoholic and the mother doesn't want the responsibility of taking care of a family and wants to paint all day.  The four children basicly have to raise themselves, much like the way Prosper and Bo have to live on their own without their parents.

Prosper and Bo eventually find three other run away kids, Riccio, Mosca and Hornet.  They take Prosper and Bo in and they all decide to live together in an abandoned movie theater.  Towards the end all the run away kids get adopted.  This relates to the world because there are lots of kids in orphanages and on the streets.  There should be much more people that decide to adopt so they can help the children that need a family and a place to call home.