Trailblazer Books (Ages 8+)

The Chimney Sweep's Ransom: John Wesley

Would he ever have enough coins to buy his brother back?

Plot

Ned Carter, an eighteenth-century boy of thirteen, has been working in the dangerous coal mines in northern England since he was five. He desperately wants to save his little brother Pip from the same fate. Like so many poor English families of the day, even the young children of the Carter family must earn money to pay the bills. Now Pip is turning five and Ned must find a way to prevent his parents from sending Pip into the coal mines.