My 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

most of you loved this

Recent reviews

  • wonderful, loved it.

    8 March 2014

  • Heart pounding

    3 March 2013

  • loved it

    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

See all reviews

Who's reading this?

Authors

  • Photo of Jim Eldridge

    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.

Rate this book

  1. loved it
  2. liked it
  3. okay
  4. not for me
  5. rubbish
Write about this book