Karen Cushman

• Apr-1995
• / Historical
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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 husb...

• Apr-1995
• / Historical
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“I am Alyce. Not Brat or Dung Beetle or Beetle. Alyce.” One frosty evening, a girl who knows no home, no parents, and no name but Brat finds shelter and warmth in a farmer's dung heap. There Jane the village midwife finds her. So it is that Br...

• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction
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In 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way...

• Oct-2000
• / Historical
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She treats me like a kitchenmaid, thought Matilda. As if I am fit for nothing but measuring and brewing. Why, I know Latin and French and some Greek, as well as reading and writing and figuring. I can name the three wise men, the seven deadly sins, a...

• Mar-2003
• / Historical
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Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski, a strong and stubborn Polish orphan, leaves Chicago on an orphan train, expecting to be adopted and turned into a slave -- or worse, not to be adopted at all. As the train rattles westward, she  begins to...

• Aug-2006
• / General Fiction
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FRANCINE GREEN'S FATHER says it's best not to speak up or get involved. But then she meets the outspoken Sophie Bowman, a newcomer to All Saints School for Girls. The nuns dislike her friendship with Sophie, who protests injustice in and out of schoo...

• May-2010
• / Historical
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Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann, newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is a...

• Nov-2012
• / Historical
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"I CARE FOR NO ONE BUT MYSELF AND NOTHING BUT MY BELLY!" WILL SPARROW, liar and thief, is running away -- from the father who sold him for beer, from the innkeeper who threatened to sell him as a chimney sweep, from his whole sorry life. Barefoot ...

• Jun-2016
• / Action Adventure
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It’s time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a “wise woman” -- a sort of witch -- has been turned into a tree by evil forces. Tangles and toadstools! Lacking confidence after years of being called “Feeble Wits” by her mother, Grayling h...

• Apr-2021
• / Historical
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The Newbery Award-winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice tells a heartfelt and humorous story of WWII on the homefront.Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It shou...

• Mar-2025
• / General Fiction
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From the Newbery-Award winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice comes the story of an orphan on the American frontier who decides to go west--with nothing but gumption as her guide.Sally O'Malley is an orphan working at ...