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Title:Catherine, Called Birdy
Author:Karen Cushman
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 224 pages
Published:June 1st 2004 by HarperTrophy (first published 1994)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade
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"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."

Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no matter how awful.

But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.

Unfortunately, he is also the richest.

Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?

Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!


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Original Title: Catherine, Called Birdy
ISBN: 0060739428 (ISBN13: 9780060739423)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Lincolnshire, England,1290
Literary Awards: Newbery Medal Nominee (1995), California Book Award for Juvenile (Silver) (1994), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1996)

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Absolutely excellent. Best YA historical novel I've ever read. Thirteen year old Catherine records the doings at her father's manor's house the year before she gets married. Sassy and smart, Catherine would fit in perfectly in modern times, but she lives in a medieval world where women are supposed to know their place (under the heels of men). But still, Catherine finds a way to make her mark on the world. Highly recommended. This book deserved to win the Newberry award.

Cushman's Newbery Honor-winning book is wonderfully evocative, with its remarkably realized, feisty heroine determined to have a say in her own destiny, despite the strictures of her medieval society. Hilarious, endearing, and determined, Birdy's trenchant observations of the life around her are told with a refreshingly earthy honesty so real and direct that you put down the book sadly, feeling like you're being parted from a dear friend. Cushman manages to create her historical period in such

Excellent! Both funny and historically realistic.Books like this is why I would never want to live in the past (even if there was a hot Scott involved) - dirt, stench, sickness, boredom, ugh.

There were a few times where I was a little bit bored with it. That could have been partly due to the fact that it was written for a much younger audience and some things I am just not interested in that I would have found fascinating when I was a teenager. It was a pretty fun book for the most part though. I was surprised at how much I laughed as I read this book. The main character was quite comical and had a very different personality than I was expecting. She acted very much like I would

Sassy and charming and full of wit, I had completely forgotten how hilarious Catherine and this novel were! Or maybe I didnt get some of the humor at the time..? Either way, Im thrilled I decided to pick this one up again after so many years and I know its one Ill be revisiting time and time again.For the full review and more, head over to The Pretty Good Gatsby!

Recently reread this for probably the hundredth time and continue to love Catherine entirely too much. Sadly, a revisit to this book as an adult highlights, to my great despair, that I always wanted her to marry the goatherd, and that part of me has been mourning the fact that she doesn't for like more than a decade. What is my life. Accessible for kids and (obviously) for adults, it felt very in the moment, like I could see and hear and live all the delights and discomforts of Catherine's time

This book was a very fun read. I'm always a sucker for diary style fiction and this one was done especially well. Cushman really did her research about the time period and that's essential. I think this book wouldn't have been so effective if Birdy had modern ideals and attitudes. I remember reading a book in high school that was supposed to be set during the Industrial Revolution but the main character acted as though she was living in modern times. She traveled where she wanted, did what she