The Ballad of Lucy Whipple - Softcover

Cushman, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 054772215X ISBN 13: 9780547722153

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2012

Synopsis

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 to return "home."

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Review:

"Cushman's heroine is a delightful character, and the historical setting is authentically portrayed. Lucy's story, as the author points out in her end notes, is the story of many pioneer women who exhibited great strength and courage as they helped to settle the West."

School Library Journal, Starred

"The recent Newbery medalist plunks down two more strong-minded women, this time in an 1849 mining camp--a milieu far removed from the Middle Ages of her first novels, but not all that different when it comes to living standards. . . . With a story that is less a period piece than a timeless and richly comic coming-of-age story, Cushman remains on a roll."

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About the Author:

Karen Cushman has had a lifelong interest in history and "wanted to know what ordinary life was like for ordinary young people in other times." Her research led to the writing of Catherine, Called Birdy, a Newbery Honor book, and The Midwife's Apprentice, a Newbery Medal winner. She lives on Vashon Island, Washington. www.karencushmanbooks.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 054772215X
• ISBN 13: 9780547722153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195