The Black Brothers. - The Fiction Shelf

Children's Bookwatch, Sept, 2004

The Black Brothers

Lisa Tetzner & Hannes Binder

Front Street

862 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806

1932425047 $16.95 frontstreetbooks.com

Black and white graphic novels are not typical publications for teens, but Lisa Tetzner's The Black Brothers will surprise you: it most definitely is for this younger audience, revolving around the story of 13-year-old Giorgio who is sold to a chimney sweep in the city by a desperately poor father. Giorgio has a secret society and a survival plan in this historical story of the 19th century, when poor farmers sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as sweeps.

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