Search of the moon king's daughter : a novel / by Linda Holeman.
by Holeman, Linda.
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BookPublisher: Plattsburgh, N.Y. : Tundra Books, c2002Description: 309 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0887765920 (bound).Subject(s): Chimney sweeps -- Fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | England -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction.Summary: Her mother had sold Tommy to a master sweep - not, as she tried to tell Emmaline, for the boy's sake. It had been a way to have money for the drug, for the drams of opiate that took her away from everything - the pain in her hand, the noise of the mill, the smell of the street. The poverty of her own spirit. And because of this need, Tommy would be a climbing boy, condemned to spending the next five years of his life forced into narrow flues in the high houses of London, sweeping and dusting the soot from the chimneys. Five years. If he lived that long.
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Selected for the 2003 BOOKS FOR THE TEEN AGE by the New York Public Library.
Her mother had sold Tommy to a master sweep - not, as she tried to tell Emmaline, for the boy's sake. It had been a way to have money for the drug, for the drams of opiate that took her away from everything - the pain in her hand, the noise of the mill, the smell of the street. The poverty of her own spirit. And because of this need, Tommy would be a climbing boy, condemned to spending the next five years of his life forced into narrow flues in the high houses of London, sweeping and dusting the soot from the chimneys. Five years. If he lived that long.
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