Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Sweep
by Jonathan Auxier
Illustrator: Dadu Shin
Ages: 9+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Amulet Books/Abrams
ISBN: 978-1-4197-3140-2
Keywords: Golem, Class exploitation, Activism, Child Labor, Fantasy, Folklore, Labor Movement, Orphans
In Victorian England, 11-year-old Nan is indentured to a cruel master as a chimney sweep, a brutally dangerous job, until the day a strange creature rescues her.