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Karen Cushman's 1996 Newbery Award
The 1996 Newbery Medal winner is The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion Books).
"The reader is drawn in from the first sentence when the author speaks of a 'rotting and moiling heap,'" said Mary Beth Dunhouse, chair of the Newbery Award Selection Committee. "And this is when the reader meets the central character, Brat--'unwashed, unnourished, unloved, and unlovely... who dreamed of nothing, for she hoped of nothing and expected nothing.' This homeless waif becomes the midwife's apprentice--a person with a name and a place in the world. Medieval England is well-evoked, and readers wi ll find this world so compelling that they will keep turning pages to see what happens next."
Reprinted by special arrangement with the publisher--ala.org.
Other favorites include...
Catherine, Called Birdy (Clarion, 1994)
Matlilda Bone (Clarion, 2000)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (Houghtin MIfflin, 1996)
Rodzina (Clarion, 2003)
The Midwife's Apprentice
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