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My Story: The Sweep's Boy

by Jim Eldridge (author)

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Suitable for 9 - 12 years

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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

Product Details

Catalogue number

6540 in Primary Schools Catalogue 2019/20

Series

My Story

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407111148

Date published

January 4th, 2010

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AR book level: 4.9; Middle years; 5.0 points

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  • 176 pages
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New

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Series

My Story

My Story

Author/Illustrator

Jim Eldridge

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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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    camio1928
    on 16 January 2012

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