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Series
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English
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"In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Nicholas, a poor nineteenth-century chimney sweep, finishes cleaning a chimney on Christmas Eve, his last customer gives him a warm coat and a pretty gift, and tells the boy to pass the kindness on.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the 19th century, poor farmers from Ticino sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as "living broomsticks" in the chimneys of Milan. Thirteen-year-old Giorgio's father had no choice but to sell his son; now Giorgio survives with the help of his friend Alfredo and their secret society, the Black Brothers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.