Can’t-Wait Wednesday – 8/8/18
“Can’t-Wait Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Thinking.
This week my Can’t-Wait Wednesday book is:
Reading Level: Middle Grade
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Puffin Canada
ISBN-13: 978-0735264359
For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”–orphans owned by chimney sweeps–to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived–and a girl. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again.
But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature–a golem–made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire.
The Soot Golem is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a life together–saving one another in the process.