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Matilda Bone Hardcover - 2000
by Cushman, Karen
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- Good
- Hardcover
Another winning Elizabethan-era novel with an incomparable heroine by Newbery medalist Karen Cushman. With witty dialogue and richly authentic detail, Cushman tells the story of a pious and learned girl who is transported from her days of study and prayer at the manor to become a bonesetter's assistant in the slums of a medieval English village.
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- Title Matilda Bone
- Author Cushman, Karen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books, New York
- Date 2000-10-16
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0395881560-3-20263091
- ISBN 9780395881569 / 0395881560
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.72 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.83 cm)
- Ages 10 to 12 years
- Grade levels 5 - 7
- Reading level 850
- Library of Congress subjects England, Physicians
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00024032
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In her long-awaited new novel, Newbery medalist Karen Cushman assembles a cast of unforgettable characters in a fascinating and pungent setting: the medical quarter of a medieval English village. To Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, barber-surgeon, and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by a priest to be pious and learned, and now destined to assist Red Peg the Bonesetter. To Matilda’s dismay, her work will not involve Latin or writing, but lighting the fire, going to market, mixing plasters and poultices, and helping Peg treat patients. Matilda is appalled by the worldliness of her new surroundings and yearns for the days at the manor when all she did was study and pray. Lonely and misunderstood, she seems destined for a fate as tragic as that of any of the sharp-tongued saints she turns to for advice.
Filled with the witty dialogue and richly authentic detail that Karen Cushman’s work is known for, Matilda Bone is a compelling comic novel about a girl who learns to see herself and others clearly, to laugh, and to live contentedly in this world. Author’s note.
Filled with the witty dialogue and richly authentic detail that Karen Cushman’s work is known for, Matilda Bone is a compelling comic novel about a girl who learns to see herself and others clearly, to laugh, and to live contentedly in this world. Author’s note.