![]() ![]() It brings up topics of child labor and anti-Semitism as this historical fantasy weaves aspects of the brutality of life as a chimney sweep with the Jewish mythological creature golems. ![]() Together, these two outcasts carve out a life together–saving one another in the process. Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier is a beautiful, poignant story set in the middle of Victorian England. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. ![]() This is the creature that saved her from the fire. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature–a golem–made from ash and coal. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again.īut when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climb or when people realise. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived–and a girl. Nan is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Golem meets Mary Poppins in an energetic super-hero adventure built on Jewish legend and Victorian. A brand-new novel by one of today’s most powerful storytellers, Sweep is a heart-rending adventure about the everlasting gifts of friendship and hope.įor nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”–orphans owned by chimney sweeps–to clean flues and protect homes from fire. ![]()
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