![]() Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest It's a brilliant book: one that I read over and over when I need a laugh. Birdy is by turns selfish, generous, compassionate, merciless, moody and serene. It has all the elements relevant to 14-year-old girls in America today: the longing for a best friend the parent-related angst the feeling that no one understands you the compulsion to do something that really matters in the world. ![]() The book is written as a journal and spans a year, during which Birdy learns to stop fighting against the position she was born to (including the arranged marriage!) Through her eyes, we come to see and know the village peasants as if they were old friends. While her father plots suitable arranged marriages for her and her mother tries to prepare her for being a wife by teaching her manners, needlework and herbal medicine, Birdy, the ultimate tomboy, plots ways to get rid of the suitors and sneak off to the village where she can help with the hay harvest and sing hey-nonny-nonny amongst the peasants. Birdy is the 14-year old daughter of a 14th-century landowner in Merrie Olde Englande. ![]() ![]() When it won the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature, it was Cushman's first book. If there were a 6-star rating, I'd give it to this book. ![]()
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