Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story
Title | Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story PDF eBook |
Author | A. M. Watson |
Publisher | Red Acre Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2017-11-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780999512203 |
Infants of the Brush is historical fiction based on Armory v. Delamirie, a 1700s court case before the King's Bench against Paul de Lamerie, a silversmith. In the vein of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Infants of the Brush is set in a time when London society ignored the ills of child labor. Unlike the gleeful chimney sweeps portrayed in Mary Poppins, climbing boys were forced up burning flues to dislodge harmful soot and coal ash. Egan Whitcombe is just six years old when he is sold to Master Armory for a few coins that his family desperately needs. As one of Master Armory's eight broomers, Egan quickly learns that his life depends on absolute obedience and the coins he earns. Pitt, the leader of Master Armory's broomers, teaches Egan to sweep chimneys and negotiate for scraps of bread. Broken and starving, the boys discover friendship as they struggle to save five guineas, the cost of a broomer's independence.
Infants of the Brush
Title | Infants of the Brush PDF eBook |
Author | A. M. Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2017-11-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780999512227 |
Songs of Innocence
Title | Songs of Innocence PDF eBook |
Author | William Blake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 1789 |
Genre | Illumination of books and manuscripts |
ISBN |
The Chimney Sweeper
Title | The Chimney Sweeper PDF eBook |
Author | William Blake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 7 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780900731044 |
Sophie's World
Title | Sophie's World PDF eBook |
Author | Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 735 |
Release | 2007-03-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466804270 |
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Title | Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Warren |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0547395744 |
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Skellig
Title | Skellig PDF eBook |
Author | David Almond |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2001-11-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 038572988X |
David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .