Catherine Called Birdy
Author(s): Karen Cushman
The diary of Catherine in the year 1291. She's 14 and it's high time she got married - or that's what her father thinks. She doesn't want Shaggy Beard, the most disgusting of suitors. Catherine's fight for freedom is as funny as it is poignant. But can she find a better life for herself?
General Information
- :
- : Pan Macmillan
- : Macmillan Children's Books
- : 0.156
- : 09 March 2001
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Karen Cushman
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 813.54
- : 240
More About The Product
"Karen Cushman's books are always wise, funny and touching" Jacqueline Wilson"
Karen Cushman was born in Chicago and now lives in Oakland, California. She has a long-standing interest in history (until recently she was Assistant Director of the Museum Studies Department at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco) -particularly in the lives of ordinary people who lived at other times. Since winning the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1995 for The Midwife's Apprentice she has become a huge star in the USA and now writes full time
