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Summary: Catherine Called Birdy
Review: This book is about a 14 year old girl named Catherine. She writes in a journal about her hard life. Her father beats her and wants to marry her off to the richest man. Her mother calls her little birdy because she has so many birds in her room.Her mother also wants her to be very polit and very girlish. One of her brothers named Edward gave her the journal to write in because he wants her to be educated. She wants to marry Perkin the goat boy and be a regular old villager. Her friend Aelis falls in love with Catherine's uncle George,but later on Aelis marrys a eight year old boy and then something happens to him. Then a man named Shaggy Beard comes to Catherine's house.Catherine thinks he is there to check her out for his son to marry,but he is really there to marry Catherine. Later on Catherine marry's someone else and has a different life. Read this book and find out who she marrys what happens to her family and how she likes marrying this man.
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Summary: Catherine Called Birdy
Review: I thought Catherine Called Birdy was o.k. Catherine Called Birdy is about a girl from the end of the 13th century who is trapped and miserable because her father is forcing her to get married to the richest guy of all no matter how awful or disgusting. Catherine is not very interested in lady chores like sewing,embroidering,etc, so in other words she is a tomboy. Catherine is also a rebellious teenager. This book has a very dry sence of humor. I found some of the humor funny but not all. The ways Catherine sends the suitors packing is kind of funny. My favorite part is the end because she finds her place in the world and realizes she will always be herself no matter what. Catherine does get married at the end,but that's all I'm going to say so if this sounds interesting to you and your interested in history check it out.
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Summary: Not for the romantic
Review: One thing I love about Cushman is her realism. She doesn't paint things "up gaudy", she doesn't pretend everyone's going to live happily ever after, she just has her heroines find their place in the world and work towards accepting it. This book is no exception.
Catherine is a delightful heroine. Clever, witty, quick, crude but basically kind, and really very modern for one who's meant to be a modest mediaeval maiden, she quickly captures our hearts, and perhaps more importantly, our interest. Her exploits are a pleasure to read.
The reason the one star is missing, is that I am a hopeless romantic. Really, deep down, I hoped that she'd elope with the goat boy and live happily ever after. Sorry. It's just me.
But read this book. It's a memorable experience.
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Summary: Takes You Back
Review: My friend told me to read this book so i took it out of the library. Little did I know tha I was holding the book that I soon wouldn't put down. It may be fiction, but I learned a lot from it. If you like to read a girl's diary red this. If you like Dear America you will LOVE this!
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Summary: Sam's Reveiw
Review: Catherine,Called Birdy,written by Karen Cushman is about a young girl whos dad is forcing her to get married to the oldest,meanest,and revolting man she has ever met. Catherine wants to move out and have an adventure of a life time,but her father and her soon-to-be husband will not let her leave.
Perkin, the man that her father wants to marry off to her daughter, is the most laziest,most stubborn man. Whenever Perkin sees Catherine he winks at her and it makes her sick to her stomach. She is so scared to tell her father she doesnt want to marry him, and will never love him. George, the man that Catherine loves is trying to get her to leave with him, but they have to figure out a way to escape with out her father and Perkin knowing. It took them four and a half days to find a plan. Then all they had to do is escape to a land that they will never be able to find...
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Summary: Cathrine Called Birdy, 1290's girl
Review: Cathrine called birdy is an okay book. All of my friends are reading so I tried it. I didn't really like it as much as i thought it would be. She thinks of her father as a Beast and her dad is selling her like cheese for her marrige. Then someone wishes to marry her. She will not consent. If she does she will be Lady Shaggy Beard. Shaggy Baerd is ugly un mannered beast! But by some mysterious accedent he dies, leaving her to marry his son Stevon. During this time, she runs off, and helped her mother with her new baby girl. With i brother as a monk, another who works with the King, and one the Adominable Robert. Then her best friend, Aleis is marrrying Robert but she is not that happy about it. This book is one for the historcal aspect and loves Medival Times.
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Summary: Catherine called Birdy ,
Review: Catherine called Birdy is by far one of the best books I have ever read. It is about is teenage girl growing up on a manor during the middle ages. It is was written in diary form which made it very interesting because it was somthing new.It started off a little slow but once I got into it I just couldnt put it down. During the book many interesting characters come into play such as Perkins the sheep boy who one day hopes to be a scholar.George , Catherine's uncle who once went on a crusade. The best part of the book is the end when there is a unusually suprising twist.
I chose this book because I had to read a medieval book for school. I dislike medieval books so I was not looking forward to this, but once I got into this book it was the best. I also recommend that after you read this book you read the Midwives Apprentice. Also written by Karen Cushman
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Summary: Catherine Called Birdie
Review: Catherine Called Birdie was an excellent book about a fourteen year old girl that lived back in the 1290's and her fathers search for her new husband.
I thought that this book was really interesting because of the differences in the way that she, as a fourteen year old girl lived, and I, as a fourteen year old girl live.
I really liked the way the author set the book in diary format. It keeps a young readers attention and gives room for detail that has been left out without making it look this way.
I would have liked the book to be longer and tell about her life as a married "woman" at the age of fourteen, but still, I would definately recommend this book to others my age.
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Summary: What I think
Review: Catherine called Birdy is a great book because it has humor, historical facts, and a good ending. Also Catherine called Birdy has some crude humor, but it is just hysterical because most 14-year olds from the twevelth to fourteenth century obeyed thier father. I also think this is a great book because it was something that not only I could enjoy, but the whole family could enjoy. That is why I think this book sould get 4 stars not just 3.
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Summary: Catherine Called Stupid
Review: This is an utterly horrible book. Never in all my days have I experienced such an uttery transformingly dreadful book. I suffered through the patheticly boring diary entries, and the tacky attempts at humor were very lame; I couldn't force myself to finish. I have usually found diary narration less than entralling, but this attempt was one of the worst I have ever read. I had prepared myself for an extremely good book, since this one is often associated with books such as. Ella Enchanted, ( it is unworthy to be in the same sentence as the book.) Please, good Americans, do not waste your time on such an unspeakably dreadful narration. Ugh! Don't waste your money: b/c you are worth it! I was forced by circumstances to give it one star, but in reality, this book deserves -1,000,000,000 stars.
Do not be decieved by the good reviews of this book; they are written by people who are amused by lame humor.
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