Search of the Moon King's Daughter
Linda Holeman$9.31
$10.95
Included in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults lists
Nominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School Board Gentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, her idyllic country life in Victorian England comes to an abrupt end when her father dies of cholera. The family is forced to move to a mill town, where Emmaline's mother is dreadfully injured in a factory accident. To ease her pain she takes laudanum and is soon addicted, craving the drug so badly that she sells Tommy into servitude as a chimney sweep in London. Emmaline knows that a sweep's life is short and awful. Small boys as young as five are forced to climb naked into dark chimneys, their bare feet prodded by nail-studded sticks to keep them working. If Tommy is to survive, it is up to Emmaline to find him. Linda Holeman brings a bygone period to life in a book of serious historical fiction for young adults.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Published: 09/02/2003
ISBN: 9780887766091
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.68h x 5.22w x 0.64d
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Young Adult Canadian Book Award - Honor Book
Review Citations: Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 20
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 72728 / Search of the Moon King's Daughter
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 12
Nominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School Board Gentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, her idyllic country life in Victorian England comes to an abrupt end when her father dies of cholera. The family is forced to move to a mill town, where Emmaline's mother is dreadfully injured in a factory accident. To ease her pain she takes laudanum and is soon addicted, craving the drug so badly that she sells Tommy into servitude as a chimney sweep in London. Emmaline knows that a sweep's life is short and awful. Small boys as young as five are forced to climb naked into dark chimneys, their bare feet prodded by nail-studded sticks to keep them working. If Tommy is to survive, it is up to Emmaline to find him. Linda Holeman brings a bygone period to life in a book of serious historical fiction for young adults.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Published: 09/02/2003
ISBN: 9780887766091
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.68h x 5.22w x 0.64d
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Young Adult Canadian Book Award - Honor Book
Review Citations: Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 20
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 72728 / Search of the Moon King's Daughter
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 12