num_pages: 320
description: Included in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults listsNominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School BoardGentle 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.
language: English
title: Search of the Moon King's Daughter
titlecomplete: Search of the Moon King's Daughter
genres: British Literature, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical, Teen, Novels, Fiction
ratings_count: 383
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
publisher: Tundra Books