Search of the Moon King's Daughter by Holeman, Linda

Search of the Moon King's Daughter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780887766091)

Vendor: Linda Holeman
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Format: Paperback
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Search of the Moon King's Daughter by Holeman, Linda

Search of the Moon King's Daughter

$10.95
Search of the Moon King's Daughter by Holeman, Linda

Search of the Moon King's Daughter

$10.95
Format: Paperback
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Included in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults lists

Nominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School Board

Gentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, her idyllic country life in Victorian England comes to an abrupt end when her father dies of cholera. The family is forced to move to a mill town, where Emmaline's mother is dreadfully injured in a factory accident. To ease her pain she takes laudanum and is soon addicted, craving the drug so badly that she sells Tommy into servitude as a chimney sweep in London. Emmaline knows that a sweep's life is short and awful. Small boys as young as five are forced to climb naked into dark chimneys, their bare feet prodded by nail-studded sticks to keep them working. If Tommy is to survive, it is up to Emmaline to find him.

Linda Holeman brings a bygone period to life in a book of serious historical fiction for young adults.

Author: Linda Holeman
ISBN-10: 0887766099
ISBN-13: 9780887766091
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2003
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.68h x 5.22w x 0.64d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 72728 / Search of the Moon King's Daughter

Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Young Adult Canadian Book Award - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 20
By Linda Holeman
By Linda Holeman
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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Linda Holeman had always dreamed of becoming an author. Her first writing success came when she was in grade 5. A story she had written was aired on the CBC radio program "Story Broadcast Journal" and she still has a copy of the booklet it was published in.

Her career has included stints as a classroom and resource teacher and an adult workshop instructor. Her first published work as an adult was a collection of short stories called Saying Good-bye in 1995. She is the author of Frankie on the Run, a picture book and Flying to Yellow and The Devil's Darning Needle, two collections of short stories for adults. Her fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in numerous anthologies.

Both Promise Song, her first young adult novel and Mercy's Birds, her second, were selected for Books for the Teen Age lists by The New York Public Library. Her third YA novel, Raspberry House Blues, was published in Fall 2000 to excellent reviews. All three novels feature strong female teen protagonists and have been praised for the true representation of character, and especially, dialogue. Search of the Moon King's Daughter is a new work of historical fiction, already being well received. Linda Holeman lives in Winnipeg.

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