Karen Cushman, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.50 (176p) ISBN 978-0-440-41822-1
Orphaned 13-year-old Matilda becomes apprenticed to Peg, a bonesetter in medieval times. "Matilda is less winning than her supporting cast. Fiery Peg, her witty husband and her circle of friends will be the characters readers remember,"...
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Karen Cushman, Author . Clarion $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-618-13351-2
After taking on medieval times in Catherine Called Birdy
and Matilda Bone, Cushman here follows another feisty heroine as she makes her way West on an orphan train. Narrator Rodzina Cara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski (who is "big for twelve and...
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Karen Cushman, Author , read by Becky Ann Baker. Listening Library $25 (, unabridged, three cassettes, 5 hrs., $25 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-8072-1576-0
Reading her introduction, Cushman (Catherine, Called Birdy)
connects her latest historical novel to her own family history, piquing the interest of listeners who are then rewarded with Baker's steady performance and a consistently solid...
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Karen Cushman, Author . Clarion $16 (225p) ISBN 978-0-618-50455-8
Cushman takes on many issues in this novel set in Hollywood at the peak of McCarthyism, unfortunately diluting the power of any one of them. As the book opens, narrator Francine learns that her neighbor Sophie Bowman will be joining her eighth grade
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Karen Cushman, Author . Clarion $16 (167p) ISBN 978-0-547-23184-6
Cushman's (Catherine, Called Birdy
) newest novel has all the elements that have made her earlier books so beloved. With flawless historical prose, Cushman introduces Meggy Swann, a feisty, sharp-tongued girl just arrived in gritty Elizabethan...
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Karen Cushman, Author Clarion Books $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-395-68186-2
``You can run, but you can't hide'' is the rather belated conclusion reached by Catherine, called ``Birdy'' for her caged pets, in this fictive diary of a medieval young woman's coming-of-age and struggle for self-determination. Escaping regularly...
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Karen Cushman, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-440584-3
A Newbery Honor Book, this witty and wise fictive diary of a 13th-century English girl, according to PW, ``introduces an admirable heroine and pungently evokes a largely unfamiliar setting.'' Ages 12-up. (May)
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Karen Cushman, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-440630-7
In reviewing this 1996 Newbery winner, PW said that Cushman ""has an almost unrivaled ability to build atmosphere, and her evocation of a medieval village, if not scholarly in its authenticity, is supremely colorful and pungent."" Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Karen Cushman, Author Clarion Books $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-72806-2
In a voice so heartbreakingly bitter that readers can taste her homesickness, California Morning Whipple describes her family's six-year stay in a small mining town during the Gold Rush. Her mother, a restless widow with an acid tongue, has uprooted
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Karen Cushman, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-440684-0
PW gave a starred review to this gold-rush novel by Newbery Medalist Cushman, calling it ""a coming-of-age story rich with historical flavor."" Ages 8-12. (May)
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Karen Cushman, Author Clarion Books $15 (167p) ISBN 978-0-395-88156-9
Fans of Cushman's previous medieval novels (Catherine, Called Birdy; The Midwife's Apprentice) may be disappointed with this historical adventure set in ""Blood and Bone Alley"" in the town of Chipping Bagthorpe. Unlike Catherine and Brat, heroines...
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Karen Cushman. Clarion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-547-73962-5
Impudent, headstrong, and “a liar and a thief,” 12-year-old Will Sparrow is also a hero to remember in this rousing story from Newbery Medalist Cushman (The Midwife’s Apprentice), set in Elizabethan England. Abandoned by his mother and sold by his...
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Karen Cushman. Clarion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-544-30180-1
Bringing fantasy elements to the historical terrain she is known for, Newbery Award–winner Cushman (The Midwife’s Apprentice) introduces timid Grayling Strong, who must stop a terrible dark entity that has invaded the land and caused those with...
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Karen Cushman, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Clarion Books $13 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-69229-5
Having focused on a well-born young heroine in her Newbery Honor debut novel, Catherine, Called Birdy, Cushman returns to a similar medieval English setting, this time to imagine how the other half lived. The strengths of this new, relatively brief...
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Karen Cushman. Knopf, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-9848-5010-2
Newbery Medalist Cushman melds historical detail and generous humor in this gently paced novel of family travails and sociopolitical tensions set in 1941 California. With the threat of war looming following the death of her beloved grandmother, 12-ye
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