The Black brothers
Subtitle: a novel in pictures
By: Lisa Tetzner ; pictures by Hannes Binder ; translated by Peter F. Neumeyer.
Contributors: Binder, Hannes, 1947-; Neumeyer, Peter F., 1929-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Front Street
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Asheville, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781932425048
Subjects: Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction; Chimney sweeps -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Milan (Italy) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Work titles: Schwarzen Brüder.
Description: In the middle of the 19th century, poor farmers from Ticino sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as "living broomsticks" in the chimneys of Milan. Thirteen-year-old Giorgio's father had no choice but to sell his son; now Giorgio survives with the help of his friend Alfredo and their secret society, the Black Brothers.
Notes: First published in German in 1940.

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