Search of the Moon King's Daughter is a historical novel set in industrial England in the 1830s. Emmaline Roke enjoys life with her family in Maidenfern. However, her world changes when Emmaline's father dies from cholera and the family moves to a factory town to work in the mill. When Emmaline is 15, her mother is injured in an industrial accident and becomes addicted to laudanum. In order to support her addiction, Mrs. Roke sells her deaf son Tommy into slavery as a chimney sweep. Emmaline travels to London to work as a maid and to rescue her brother from the cruelty of the chimney sweeps. Holeman has written a novel by juxtaposing the difficult lives of the working class struggling to survive in contrast to the opulent existence of those who have built the economy on human industry. .

English language arts grade 8 (2009).