num_pages: 400
description: 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 together--saving one another in the process.
language: English
title: Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
publisher: Puffin Canada