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Summary: I reccomend this book
Review: It was a wonderful book. I love history, and I love readingbooks that take place in history. It is about a girl who lacks love and finally finds out whyo she is inside. Wonderful book I strongly reccomend it.
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Summary: Not worth the paper it's printed on!
Review: I thought this book was vulgar and very inappropriate to its intended age group. I would label this book "cruelty as entertainment". To name just one (of many) of the troubling scenes in this book is the childbirth scene in which the mid-wife wants to collect two fees from birthing mothers, but intends to leave one baby to die unborn. The language and subject matter is too mature for this age. Some themes in the book are cruelty to animals, disrespect for life, lack of good moral characters. I think, in a time when our youth are struggling to find a healthy self-image and healthy relationships with others, this is a book that should be avoided.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: Although I can't honestly say that it was as good as " Catherine, Called Birdy ", " The Midwife's Apprentice " was just as well written, and full of fascinating details. Karen Cushman creates an extremely realistic character, Alyce, who the reader can easily sympathise with. An orphan living in the 1400s, she struggles along, trying to find a place for herself in an unfriendly world. I hope you enjoy this novel as much as I do! ( If it matters to you, I'm 14, but first read " The Midwife's Apprentice " when I was 11).
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Summary: Harsh truth found in a good book.
Review: This is a good book, posing harsh truth on fantasies of theglamour of medevil ledgends. It is about a girl who's smart and sassy,but hidden behind rags. Then she makes the world her clamshellweather it likes it or not. But she runs from failure, and bounces back with more vigor than before. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: Moving on up
Review: When I read this book at 13,it marked an epiphany for me. For the first time,I found myself in a book. Beetle(aka Brat) was an outcast,trying to prove herself in a cruel,raucous world. Thwarting the many obstacles in her path, she got a job, home,pet cat,and friends. She discovered her worth and a real name,Alyce. Eventually,she failed in delivering a baby and did what any scared girl would've done: ran away. Would she ever return? Some scenes were disgusting,like when she slept in dung. The part about Edward was somewhat contrived. I'd still reccomend it,though. It transcends time.
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Summary: Spicy
Review: This was a very good book. The only problem I had with it was that it wasnt long enough. The girl in the story really makes something of herself, in a way that no other could.
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Summary: Great book for Middle School
Review: The book is a great one. I read it as part of my reading list for rising 7th graders. I never imagined recalling history so interesting! Cushman does a great job!
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Summary: Delightfully irreverent, yet thoughtful and authentic.
Review: A subtitle could easily be "The Young Woman Who Invented Herself". Both she and her story dance lightly past both modern and medieval stereotypes, leaving us to wonder why we ever believed them in the first place.
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Summary: This interesting book will take you back to medieval times.
Review: This story takes place in Medieval England. Alyce who was poor, homeless and nameless got a chance of a lifetime to be the apprentice of the crabby, mean, Jane Sharp. Alyce she runs away from her mistake and doesn't fix it. Never the right choice. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes this kind of story. It's a very good book!. I give it four stars.
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Summary: I was disappointed
Review: I was disappointed by Karen Cushman's work. I think she could have done alot better, as she has done in the past. I read this book expecting alot better then what I got! Still, my time reading wasn't wasted; I learned something about midevil times, and it was very nice for some short reading.
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