Look insideMy Story: The Sweep's Boy
Say hello to yesterday without a Tardis. Discover My Story: the series where history gets real. The foggy streets of London in 1870 are a perilous place for a boy like Will. Forced by the Workhouse Master to work as a chimney sweep, Will endures a hard, dirty, dangerous life. But things get even worse when Will’s climbing skills attract the attention of the evil Hutch, who needs just such a boy to help him with his burglary jobs…
- A fascinating fictional diary from a best-loved series
- A vivid first-hand account of poverty in Victorian times
- Captures how it felt to live through this turbulent time
- Inspiring historical reading that supports the curriculum
- Hugely popular series with over a million copies sold
Recent reviews
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wonderful, loved it.
8 March 2014
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Heart pounding
3 March 2013
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really good book.if you think about it you find its really sad, thats what a good book does! the story is amazing,see for yourself.
16 January 2012
Who's reading this?
Authors
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Jim Eldridge
Jim Eldridge is the award-winning author of The Trenches, Flying Ace and Armada in the boy’s strand of the My Story series. He is also a TV script-writer for the BBC.
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