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“She and her Sweep had both gone to bed as they always had,
nestled against a chimney stack beneath the starry sky. But when the girl woke
the next morning, her Sweep was gone” (p. 13).
Nan is an 11 year-old girl in the late 1800s. She is in
contracted servitude to work as a chimney sweep, along with four other children
ages 7 to 12. Food is scarce, work is dangerous, and there is very little for
her to be hopeful for, except that someday her
Sweep, original master, may one-day return. All she has left of him is his
hat and a piece of char that still feels warm somehow.
The “Devil’s Nudge,” a dangerous method used by master
chimney sweeps to get their chimney climbers (child laborers) unstuck from a
chimney stack. They light a fire under the stuck child and they either scramble
their way to freedom or burn.
One day while cleaning chimneys, Nan got stuck…
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A Note from Ms. Stimpson: I don’t often give my opinion on a book, as I prefer the reader to
discover their own preferences in reading. However, there are not many stories
often written as this one. Nor do all stories touch your soul. Sweep is one of those stories, because even in
the darkness and despair, hope can make the darkness more grey than it had been
before.
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