Jonathan Auxier book reading
Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PAJoin us for a reading with Jonathan Auxier, presenting his newest children’s book Sweep. 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 […]