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'''Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster'''<br>
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'''Author:''' Anderson, Laurie Halse<br>
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'''Author:''' Auxier, Jonathan<br>
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'''[https://amzn.to/31EFOtL Buy at Amazon] | [https://bookshop.org/a/15682/9781419737022 BookShop.org]<br><br>'''
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'''Time Period:''' Age of Revolutions <br>
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'''Time Period:''' Industrial Age <br>
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'''Time Frame:''' 1793<br>
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'''Time Frame:''' 1874<br>
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'''Geographic Area:''' Europe <br>
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'''Country:''' United States<br>
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'''Country:''' Great Britain<br>
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'''Topics:''' Plagues, Yellow Fever<br>
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'''Topics:''' Child Labor, Victorian England<br>
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'''Genre:''' Fiction <br>
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'''Genre:''' Historical Fantasy <br>
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'''Reading Age:''' Upper Middle<br>
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An epidemic of yellow fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review).
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For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”—orphans owned by chimney sweeps—to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived—and a girl. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature—a golem—made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire.
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During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.
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Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a life—saving one another in the process. By one of today’s most powerful storytellers, Sweep is a heartrending adventure about the everlasting gifts of friendship and hope.
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Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.
 
  
 
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I read this aloud with my 10-year-old... and oh my goodness. What a beautiful book. It definitely lived up to the hype. The storytelling was done so well These felt like real people, walking off the page to tell us their story. It had so many things that I love in books - Victorian London setting, children finding a magical protector, Judaism in a story NOT about the Holocaust (far rarer than you'd think), and a really nasty villain. A beautiful blend of historical fiction and fantasy, with themes of friendship, sacrifice and courage. I think this is a book that both my daughter and I will reread in the future.
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This book is VIVID. When I talk about historical fiction making history come alive, this book is always at the forefront of my thoughts. In this story, we follow Mattie, a headstrong daughter of a single mother, who was also raised by her grandfather to be a soldier. She has big plans for her future following in her mother's footsteps as a businesswoman running her own coffee house and store. But when plague strikes Philadelphia in 1793, her world gets turned upside down.  
 
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There is so much to love about this story - Mattie is a fantastic and realistic character. You can tell the author put a lot of time and effort into the research behind the story. You really do feel like you are there in the thick of it. We get to see what early medicine looked like (horrific), the Free African Society and how African Americans were viewed by the northern population, even when they were considered free. The story is also an exciting tale of survival! How will Mattie make it through this calamity, where it feels like the world has ended and no where is safe? I found re-reading it in 2021 to be particularly illuminating - seeing how long it took for people to believe there was real danger with the epidemic, the difference between the ways the wealthy were able to handle the fever vs. the poor. This story is historical fiction at its finest.
 
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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Author: Auxier, Jonathan
Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org

 Time Period: Industrial Age
Time Frame: 1874
Geographic Area: Europe
Country: Great Britain
Topics: Child Labor, Victorian England
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Reading Age: Middle Grade, |Upper Middle Grade
Format: |Chapter Book
Published: 2020

World History > Industrial Age > Child Labor

For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”—orphans owned by chimney sweeps—to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived—and a girl. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature—a golem—made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire.

Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a life—saving one another in the process. By one of today’s most powerful storytellers, Sweep is a heartrending adventure about the everlasting gifts of friendship and hope.

Emily's Review

I read this aloud with my 10-year-old... and oh my goodness. What a beautiful book. It definitely lived up to the hype. The storytelling was done so well These felt like real people, walking off the page to tell us their story. It had so many things that I love in books - Victorian London setting, children finding a magical protector, Judaism in a story NOT about the Holocaust (far rarer than you'd think), and a really nasty villain. A beautiful blend of historical fiction and fantasy, with themes of friendship, sacrifice and courage. I think this is a book that both my daughter and I will reread in the future.

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